Mind Quotes - Page 76

I just want to fill the hearts and minds of the people who listen to my music

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Ever since I was little I wanted to be a singer, but my family would tell me to choose another dream. I'm glad I stuck it out because I am proof that you can be whatever you want to be if you put your mind to it.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

What one can be, one must be!

Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole art of medicine

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.