Mind Quotes

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.