Mind Quotations | Page 3

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills.

I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.

The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.

Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

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.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

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

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

I... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud... Out here, everything was Jung.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.