Mind Quotes - Page 510

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?

Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film.

I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell." Chapter 5 pg. 50

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature

I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.