Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
~By David Guterson ~
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
~By Melanie Klein ~
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.
~By Michelle Wie ~
It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
~By Beck ~
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
~By Hugh Grant ~
Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
~By Mike Todd ~
And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.
~By Patty Hearst ~
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
~By Thomas Hood ~
Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
~By Ted Olson ~
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
~By Maimonides ~
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
~By Josh Lucas ~
Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.
~By Dick York ~
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~By Sivananda ~
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
~By Oswald Mosley ~
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
~By Robert Redford ~
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
~By George Santayana ~
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
~By Toni Braxton ~
I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
~By Adam Sandler ~
I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
~By Mariah Carey ~
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
~By Victor Hugo ~
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
~By Sallust ~
I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.
~By Richard Land ~
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
~By Clifton Fadiman ~
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
~By Simon Raven ~
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
~By Henri Matisse ~
We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.
~By John Redwood ~
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing.
~By Annabella Sciorra ~
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
~By George Saintsbury ~
All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
~By Bob Ney ~
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~By Mencius ~
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
~By John Ashbery ~
I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
~By Wilt Chamberlain ~
The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.
~By Debbie Allen ~
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
~By Peter Hook ~
Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.
~By Paul Guilfoyle ~
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
~By Henri Poincare ~
We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.
~By Donald Cram ~
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
~By Gene Tunney ~
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
~By Allen Tate ~
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
~By Giambattista Vico ~
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.
~By Gene Barry ~
We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.
~By Marta Kristen ~
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.
~By John Edwards ~
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~By Erich Fromm ~
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
~By Fisher Ames ~
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
~By Jimmy Sangster ~
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
~By Robert Frank ~
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
~By Mick Jagger ~
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
~By Carl Jung ~
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
~By River Phoenix ~
Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
~By Paul Valery ~
I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.
~By Sonia Braga ~
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
~By Herman Melville ~
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.
~By Joan Severance ~
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
~By Egon Schiele ~
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
~By James Payn ~
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
~By Guru Nanak ~
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
~By Andres Segovia ~
You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
~By Nick Rhodes ~
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.
~By Broderick Crawford ~
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~By Ansel Adams ~
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
~By Phaedrus ~
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
~By Adolf Anderssen ~
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
~By John Locke ~
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