Minds Quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.