Mind Quotes

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.