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Mind Quotes


"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."


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


"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."


"In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the 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."


"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."


"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."
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"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."


"We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong."


"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."


"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."


"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."


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


"I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that."


"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."


"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."


"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."


"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
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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."


"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
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