Mind Quotes

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.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

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.

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

The march of the human mind is slow.

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.