Mind Quotes - Page 453

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

...the Rule of Agreement reminds you to “respect what your partner has created” and to at least start from an open-minded place. Start with a YES and see where that takes you.

I mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major piazza that Marvel hasn't even been to before, because it's all about creation and not so much about destruction and forestalling destruction, it's about your mind.

Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind.

It's a little weird when people turn around and look at you, but I don't mind. I really don't think I've changed.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again.

A mind is as strong as its weakest think.

I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

Whatever we have done in withdrawing from full consciousness of the One Mind, we are doing now. Whatever we are doing will always be within us to do, even when we are not doing it, and therefore is not to be resisted, but transcended. These are reminders I frequently use: "That's always within me." "This, too, can be experienced with a completely expanded awareness."

Hungry people have especially clear minds.

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.