Mind Quotes - Page 641

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

One of the things that fascinated people about the twins, and one of the first things that comes to people's minds when they see Siamese Twins is: well, how do you have sex?

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.

Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in its natural state, which is open to and naturally aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they occur.

Brad Wright, who created Grant MacLaren, had me in mind. We'd actually worked together 20 years ago. He wrote an episode of The Outer Limits that I was in in '96 or '95? So we'd been aware of each other for years. I'd lived in Vancouver off and on, where he's based. And it just came to me, and I'm always looking for something different. Perception was a different show than Will & Grace.

So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

So many people are out of their minds.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Today we're full of liquidity in money. And what you have to do is to convince big money to change the mindset and reinvest in these new activities to accelerate this change and create new jobs.

I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.