Mind Quotes - Page 438

The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.

It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion.