Mind Quotes - Page 28

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.