Mind Quotes - Page 373

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

[The Women's Room by Marilyn French] was in my house somewhere, blew my mind, I was changed forever. And then I continued to read it at various points in my life, and it sort of opens up in a different way.

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer.

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

I have so many things going on in my life that my mind is always in other places.