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Mind Quotes


"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
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"Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind."


"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."


"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do."


"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
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"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be."


"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
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"Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence."


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


"A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself."


"The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in."
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"To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape."


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


"At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's."
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"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
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"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."


"There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them."


"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
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"Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher."


"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."


"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."


"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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"A problem is a problem only when it is taken as a problem."


"I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind."


"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."


"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."


"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."


"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
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