Mind Quotes - Page 500

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.

To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of a pseudonym given to you by a journalist. Those ideas were soon taken up by Lena Dunham, Lady Gaga, and Kesha. And now, with Harvey Weinstein's unmasking, they've spread to the top of Hollywood.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

The emergent terrorist threats and the spread of nuclear technology and materials have made it much more likely that terrorists will get their hands on a nuclear weapon and that just changes the whole calculus. I love the quote by Rev. Richard Cizik: "If you've never changed your mind about anything, then pinch yourself, you might be dead." The world has changed and we need to start talking about this.