Mind Quotes - Page 202

It was Scripture that I had hidden in my heart that quickly came to mind when my frustration felt stronger than my faith.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper.

It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

Impossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

The most important rule: Do not, I repeat, do not censor yourself in any way. Leave your editorial mind out of the loop. Just let the ideas come pouring out in any way, shape, or form they want to. Do not judge anything.

Be mindful even if your mind is full

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

One must always be civic-minded.

It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that spirit was slowly, instinctively, working for the establishment of small property throughout Christendom.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.