Mind Quotes

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'