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Mind Quotes


"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."


"I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all."
Mind,


"But there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers."


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


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


"Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can really kill you. From dawn to the time you retire, your mind can be a very good friend to you and your mind can also be your worst friend. What goes into your mind each day becomes your friend so mind your mind!"


"The highest heaven is not in the sky, it is in the human mind."


"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it."


"This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility."


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


"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."


"But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story."
Mind,



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


"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."


"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."
Mind,


"I use my mind to solve problems and invent things."


"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."


"A thought comes when it will, not when I will."


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


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