Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free
-- Aldous Huxley -
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system
-- Aldous Huxley -
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
-- Aldous Huxley -
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
-- Alec Douglas-Home -
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
-- Aleister Crowley -
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
-- Aleister Crowley -
All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
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She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind
-- Alessandro Baricco -
As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
-- Alex Ferguson -
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Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.
-- Alex GarlandSource : "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.
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Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.
-- Alex Grey -
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator
-- Alex GreySource : Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.37, North Atlantic Books
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
-- Alex Kapranos -
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After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
-- Alex ScarrowSource : "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.
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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
-- Alex Shakar -
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
-- Alex Van Halen -
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But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.
-- Alex WinterSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.
-- Alexander Barclay