Mind Quotes

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.