Mind Quotes - Page 359

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.

Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

I have to do stand-up. I have to do something comedy-involved every day or else I will lose my mind. I already am, but I would go more nuts.

O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.