Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
~By Yousuf Karsh ~
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
~By John Bunyan ~
Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
~By Lauren Bush ~
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.
~By John Jewel ~
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.
~By Tina Brown ~
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
~By Bobby Charlton ~
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~By Mencius ~
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
~By Thomas Nagel ~
If you never change your mind, why have one?
~By Edward de Bono ~
I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.
~By Michelle Wie ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
~By Fred Allen ~
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
~By George Bancroft ~
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The resolved mind hath no cares.
~By George Herbert ~
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
~By Norman Lindsay ~
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
~By Mark Rylance ~
In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.
~By Michael Connelly ~
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 ~
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
~By Sarah Fielding ~
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I'm very open-minded.
~By Gabrielle Reece ~
From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.
~By Mel Martinez ~
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Little things please little minds.
~By Ovid ~
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
~By Arthur Eddington ~
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
~By Julius Rosenwald ~
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
~By Alice Cooper ~
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~By Anatole France ~
But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
~By Bode Miller ~
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
~By Sarah Orne Jewett ~
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
~By Sophocles ~
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
~By Yoko Ono ~
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
~By Bodhidharma ~
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
~By Peter Steele ~
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
~By Bodhidharma ~
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.
~By Colm Meaney ~
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
~By David Bohm ~
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
~By Oswald Mosley ~
I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
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 usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.
~By Donald Cram ~
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
~By Shana Alexander ~
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
~By E. M. Forster ~
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
~By Roman Polanski ~
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
~By Simone Weil ~
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
~By Robert Atkins ~
I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.
~By Jimmy Piersall ~
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
~By Benjamin Hoff ~
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
~By William Cowper ~
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
~By Julius Charles Hare ~
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
~By Jasper Johns ~
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
~By Louis Stokes ~
Learning never exhausts the mind.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
~By Allen Klein ~
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
~By Aristotle ~
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
~By Tom Wilson ~
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
~By Alfred Adler ~
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
~By Rider Strong ~
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
~By George Santayana ~
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.
~By Marion Ross ~
Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.
~By Jay Mohr ~
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
~By Rose Tremain ~
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
~By Pink ~
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
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