Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
-- A. A. Milne -
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
-- A. E. Housman -
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
-- A. E. Housman -
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
-- A. G. Mohan -
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
-- A. G. Mohan -
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
-- A. H. Almaas -
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
-- A. N. Wilson -
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
-- A. Powell Davies -
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.
-- A. R. Ammons -
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
-- A.J. Ayer -
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
-- A.J. Cronin -
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
-- Aaron Allston -
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.
-- Aaron Allston -
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
-- Aaron Copland -
The road to national rebirth is a hard one, but there is no other.
-- Aaron David Miller -
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
-- Aaron Hill -
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
-- Aaron Hill -
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
-- Abdul Kalam
