Mind Quotes - Page 172

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.