Mind Quotes - Page 574

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger other associations you have in your mind. So, there is this inherent narrative in the end, whether it is abstract or what.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark

For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

Cluttered closets mean a cluttered mind.

I let go of all negativity that rests in my body and mind

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.