Mind Quotes - Page 569

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value hand-done proofs above all else. A big question in mathematics today is whether or not computational proofs are legitimate. Some mathematicians won't accept computational proofs and insist that a real proof must be done by the human hand and mind, using equations.

Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.