Mind Quotes

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.