Mind Quotes - Page 417

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets. But musically, it all fell right into place.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

The one thing you know when you're shooting a script - and I've been on a lot of sets - is space is in a script, and the distance between the page and the stage is so enormous that it is unbelievable how even the brightest people can misread your intent or not see it altogether. Scripts have air in them. Scripts are supposed to leave things up to interpretation, but people can misread things enormously, so sometimes it's just a matter of wanting to put on the screen what you had in mind.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.