Mind Quotes - Page 479

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

If you start to focus on your opponent then you see so much quality in your opponents and weaknesses in your own side. You start to put doubts in your mind. You need to respect your opponents but that's it, no more.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.

You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful.

Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.