Mind Quotes

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.