Mind Quotes - Page 353

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

An 11 year old sister has been taught by the media that her body is an object, will be compared to other bodies, and that it holds more significance than her mind or talent. This should not be the first thing she learns. This should not be her first social experience.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Your environment influences your mindset.

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

See and feel who you are. Love like you have never loved before. The practial point is to live and enjoy from where you are. You can feel every movement because you are not here. The logic is only important to the body-mind.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.