Mind Quotes - Page 336

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

If you get your mind right, you get your life right.

I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Problems exist only in the human mind.

You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.