Mind Quotes - Page 471

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

I don't mind what happens.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.

As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

I'm one of those guys who will drink to, uh, kind of celebrate. I don't drink too much when I'm down or anything like that. But you've really got to be, I guess the word that came to mind is "creative," about the way you're celebrating. You want to keep the celebration going. I've learned that lesson over and over. Here on the road there's a lot of cause for celebration, but you just gotta get the damper out a little bit, and you want to keep that governor on. You want to keep your give-a-shitter in kick.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time.

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

I'm working in my mind.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.