Mind Quotes

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.