Mind Quotes - Page 487

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

I don't mind being a Disney girl.

It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.