Mind Quotes - Page 135

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

A full mind is an empty bat.

The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

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.

The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.

A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa!

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.