Mind Quotes - Page 410

I do not really believe there is such a thing as al-Qaida, the organization; there is al-Qaida, the mind-set

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Would the cook were o' my mind!

Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.