Mind Quotes

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.