Quotes on Mind

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Author: Paula Abdul

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

Author: Maude Adams

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Author: Aeschylus

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Author: Aeschylus

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.

Author: Edward Albee

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

Author: Madeleine Albright

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Author: Brian Aldiss

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Author: William Alger

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Author: Fred Allen

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

Author: Steve Allen

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Author: Washington Allston

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Author: Hans Andersen

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

Author: Joan Ark

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Author: Matthew Arnold

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Author: John Ashbery

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Author: Margot Asquith

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Author: Mary Astell

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Author: Chet Atkins

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Author: W. Auden

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

Author: Norman Augustine

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Author: Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Author: Jane Austen

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Author: Richard Bach

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Author: Francis Bacon

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Author: Walter Bagehot

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Author: James Baldwin

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Author: Djuna Barnes

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Author: Djuna Barnes

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Author: Natalie Barney

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

Author: Fantasia Barrino

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Author: Jacques Barzun

It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.

Author: Michael Bay

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

Author: Beck

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Author: Alan Bennett

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Author: Arnold Bennett

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Author: Jack Benny

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Author: A. Benson

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Author: Bernard Berenson

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Author: Henri Bergson

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Author: Steven Biko

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Author: Bodhidharma

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Author: Bodhidharma

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Author: Bodhidharma

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Author: Bodhidharma

Your mind is nirvana.

Author: Bodhidharma

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Author: Bodhidharma

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

Author: Bodhidharma

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Author: Bodhidharma

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Author: Bodhidharma

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

Author: Marc Bolan

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Author: Matthew Bourne

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Author: F. Bradley

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Author: Constantin Brancusi

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Author: Dorthea Brande

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

Author: Toni Braxton

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

Author: Charles Broad

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Author: Jacob Bronowski

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Author: Charles Bronson

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Author: Steve Brown

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

Author: Frank Bruno

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

Author: Frank Bruno

I usually have a title in mind before I start.

Author: Frank Bruno

I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

Author: Doyle Brunson

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Author: Jean Bruyere

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Author: Jean Bruyere

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Author: Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Author: Buddha

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Author: Billie Burke

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Author: Frances Burney

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Author: William Burroughs

A quiet mind cureth all.

Author: Robert Burton

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

Author: Gary Busey

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Author: Kate Bush

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Author: Lord Byron

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Author: Lord Byron

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

Author: Naomi Campbell

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Author: Albert Camus

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Author: Albert Camus

No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

Author: Annie Cannon

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

Author: Dyan Cannon

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Author: Orson Card

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

Author: Helena Carter

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Author: George Carver

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Author: George Carver

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Author: Julian Casablancas

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Author: Jackie Chan

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Author: John Cheever

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Author: Emile Cioran

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Author: Beverly Cleary

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

Author: Patsy Cline

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

Author: Bram Cohen

A brave mind is always impregnable.

Author: Jeremy Collier

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Author: Charles Colton

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

Author: Mason Cooley

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Author: Robert Cormier

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

Author: Noel Coward

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Author: Malcolm Cowley

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Author: Donald Cram

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

Author: Hume Cronyn

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Author: e. cummings

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Author: Imogen Cunningham

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Author: Judy Davis

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

Author: Dizzy Dean

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

Author: Patrick Dennis

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

Author: Bob Denver

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Author: Rene Descartes

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Author: Rene Descartes

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

Author: Indra Devi

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Author: John Dewey

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.

Author: Lamont Dozier

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Author: Margaret Drabble

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Author: Leo Durocher

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

Author: Eliza Dushku

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Author: Edward Dyer

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

Author: Atom Egoyan

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

Author: Don Ellis

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Author: Harlan Ellison

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Author: Garth Ennis

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

Author: John Entwistle

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Author: Euripides

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Author: Cliff Fadiman

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

Author: Rio Ferdinand

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Author: Charles Fillmore

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Author: Lord Fleet

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

Author: Calista Flockhart

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.

Author: Henry Fonda

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

Author: Just Fontaine

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Author: E. Forster

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Author: George Fox

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Author: Robert Frank

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

Author: Morgan Freeman

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Author: Morgan Freeman

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Author: Sigmund Freud