Mind Quotes - Page 558

When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek.

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

There's nothing worse than poisoning our children's minds.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.