Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.
~By Charles Gounod ~
I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
~By Earl Hines ~
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
~By Henri Bergson ~
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
~By Charles Bowen ~
My mind's my kingdom.
~By Francis Quarles ~
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
~By Sylvia Browne ~
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 ~
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 ~
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
~By Frances Burney ~
The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
~By Washington Irving ~
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
~By Michael Ramsey ~
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
~By Bette Midler ~
We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.
~By Hal Sutton ~
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
God gave us the mind so that we can know him.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
~By Roland Joffe ~
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
~By Yousuf Karsh ~
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
~By George Boole ~
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
~By Dick Cavett ~
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
~By Richard Steele ~
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
~By John Keats ~
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
~By Jasper Johns ~
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
~By Charles de Lint ~
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
~By David Chalmers ~
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
~By Ralph Chaplin ~
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
~By Alfred Kazin ~
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
~By Frank Auerbach ~
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
~By Buddha ~
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
~By Lord Byron ~
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
~By Galen Rowell ~
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
~By Shakti Gawain ~
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
~By Joan Didion ~
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
~By John Adams ~
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
~By Andy Roddick ~
After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.
~By Lowell Thomas ~
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.
~By Richard Donner ~
Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
~By Joy Page ~
Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
~By Robert Lansing ~
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
~By Woody Allen ~
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
~By John Ruskin ~
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
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 ~
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
~By Garrett Fort ~
I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
~By Ann Robinson ~
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
~By Robert Collier ~
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
~By Dean Stockwell ~
My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
~By Tracy Austin ~
I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
~By Harlan Ellison ~
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
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 ~
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
~By Rene Magritte ~
I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
~By Peter Buck ~
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
~By Edward Appleton ~
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.
~By Billy Sherwood ~
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
~By Alan Rickman ~
It is the mind that makes the body.
~By Sojourner Truth ~
I wouldn't mind being a lord.
~By Peter O'Toole ~
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
~By William James ~
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
~By Winston Churchill ~
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
~By Christopher Morley ~
I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
The mind is just another muscle.
~By Ted Turner ~
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
~By Paul Valery ~
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~By John Steinbeck ~
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
~By Carl Jung ~
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
~By Plato ~
I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~By William Penn ~
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
~By Michael Phelps ~
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
~By Washington Irving ~
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