Mind Quotes

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.