Mind Quotes - Page 103

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.

When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my believing is causally responsible for my saying . . . If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it's the end of the world.

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.