Mind Quotes - Page 321

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.

I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.