Mind Quotes

A quiet mind cureth all.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.