Mind Quotes - Page 401

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind.

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.

If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.