Mind Quotes

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.