Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
-- Allen Klein -
People's minds are overloaded with information.
-- Allen Leech -
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.
-- Allen Tate -
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.
-- Allison Mackie -
Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.
-- Ally Carter -
If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction.
-- Ally Carter -
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
-- Aloe Blacc -
I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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.
-- Alva Myrdal -
Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
-- Alvar Aalto -
A library is a hospital for the mind.†- Anonymous
-- Alvin Toffler -
When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.
-- Aly Raisman -
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
-- Amado V. Hernandez -
I Want A Million Dollars A Year For Illegally Having My Mind Read And Privacy Stolen
-- Amanda Bynes -
During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.
-- Amanda Hocking -
I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
So I want to let women of all sizes out there know, you can do whatever you put your mind to. It doesn't matter what size you are, what color you are, you can do whatever, whatever, whatever you put your mind to!
-- Amber Riley -
It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.
-- Amber Valletta -
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
-- Ambrose -
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
-- Ambrose Bierce
