Mind Quotes - Page 372

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

There're the causes where people are like, "What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded." So it's an exchange. I don't mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we're actually being that way.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.