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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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"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
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"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
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"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind."
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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 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."
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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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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."
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"Mind lives in comparisons, and the moment you drop comparisons, mind disappears."
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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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"The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom."
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"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
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"The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself]."
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"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."
Mind,
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"I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen."
Mind,
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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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"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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"I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself."
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"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
Mind,
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"You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind."
Mind,
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"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Mind,
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"I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble."
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"A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk."
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"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."
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