The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
~By Leon Edel ~
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
~By Robertson Davies ~
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
~By Stendhal ~
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
~By John Kluge ~
I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
~By Eva Gabor ~
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
~By James L. Buckley ~
I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
~By Dana Plato ~
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
~By Lord Jeffrey ~
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
~By Ariel Durant ~
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
~By Robert Trout ~
PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
~By Hans Bender ~
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
~By William Scott ~
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
~By Lucretius ~
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
~By John Bacon ~
When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
~By Garth Brooks ~
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
~By Shelby Foote ~
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
~By Walter Duranty ~
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.
~By Arthur Capper ~
I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.
~By Joseph Force Crater ~
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
~By Philo ~
Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.
~By Hermann Oberth ~
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
~By Andrew Johnson ~
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
~By Rene Magritte ~
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
~By John Cheever ~
Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
~By Andrew Taylor Still ~
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
~By Marilyn French ~
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
~By John Lilly ~
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
~By Aesop ~
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
~By Agnes Martin ~
Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
~By Andy Gibb ~
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
~By Malcom X ~
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
~By Max Eastman ~
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
~By Nora Ephron ~
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.
~By Andre Braugher ~
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
~By Jon Ronson ~
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
~By Oscar Levant ~
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
~By Barry Pepper ~
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.
~By William James ~
The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
~By Bille August ~
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
~By Bob Dylan ~
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
~By Ovid ~
There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
~By John Perkins ~
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
~By Alicia Machado ~
Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
~By King Edward VIII ~
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
~By John Ruskin ~
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
~By Noah Webster ~
In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.
~By Dave Blood ~
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
~By Gunther Grass ~
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
~By Lactantius ~
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