Mind Quotes - Page 399

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

When you're no longer seeing yourself, in some ways. You're as close to being as you can be.I suppose that's consistent with the moment that the mind actually turns off, and is no longer questioning what you're doing. When the questions stop, that's when the real acting takes over. And trying to get to the point where the questions stop, "Would I do this? How do I feel about that as a character?" When those stop, and it's just doing X, Y, and zed, because that's what you'd do as this character, because you're inside this character somehow - that's when it really kicks off.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Worry erases the promises of God from your mind.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.