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Mind Quotes
"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."
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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself."
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"Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?"
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"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."
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"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
Mind,
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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few."
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"The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included."
Mind,
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"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
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"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."
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"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."
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"I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do."
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"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam."
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"All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ['Camera obscura of the mind']"
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"So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all there. You don't have to try to remember anything; it is all simply there. You can just pull it back. Memory is not about remembering, memory is just about your ability to bring back the data, isn't it?"
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"I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something."
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"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."
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"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."
Mind,
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"I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director."
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"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."
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"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"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."
Mind,
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"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."
Mind,
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"It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices."
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"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions."
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"In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind."
Mind,
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"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."
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"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing."
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"I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it."
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"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
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"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
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"Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy."
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