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Mind Quotes
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
71
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
56
"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."
56
"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."
52
"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep."
50
"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started."
46
"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
46
"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."
Mind,
42
"Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere."
33
"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."
32
"My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss."
25
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
22
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
22
"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
20
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
20
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
19
"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam."
18
"It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years."
17
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
17
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
17
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
Mind,
16
"I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director."
14
"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."
14
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
Mind,
14
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
14
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