Mind Quotes

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

My mind is always racing.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.