Mind Quotes

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Names are not always what they seem.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

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.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.