Mind Quotes - Page 380

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

Credit is money of the mind.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.