Mind Quotes - Page 363

Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind

Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

Her mind is a haunted house.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I'm not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.

I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided a new and more sophisticated threat appears on the horizon...Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.