Mind Quotes - Page 581

Gun Control is mind control.

So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

Don't hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgmental and lazy mind.

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.

Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

I say what's on my mind. I go after what I want.

There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

I would love to end my European campaign with the World Championship stripes on my back. But everything else that I have in my mind right now is to continue working with and having my little camps for women cyclists.

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

It's interesting how you can blur the line between acting and living and learn from your performances. I'm just trying to keep learning as much as I can and not get caught up in all the distractions that can play havoc with your mind.

It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

I've definitely grown, and I think I've done enough stuff that people might look at me only as Veronica Mars. But honestly, I really don't mind if they do.

I was definitely a fan of Robert Patricks character in T2. I was just really awed by his performance and the complete body control that he had, so I think maybe subconsciously, that played in the back of my mind.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.

I have always had stuff on the internet, way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about like networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.