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Mind Quotes
"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."
Mind,
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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
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"The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks."
2
"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."
2
"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."
2
"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don't have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!"
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"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind,
2
"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
2
"Thoughts are a product manufactured by the relentless effort of the machine we call a mind."
2
"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop."
Mind,
2
"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
2
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
Mind,
2
"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."
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"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start."
Mind,
2
"I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind."
2
"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."
2
"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."
Mind,
2
"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
2
"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
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"The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation."
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"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement."
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"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
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"The mind is so powerful that is can suddenly grow wings of imagination and fly in the open sky."
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"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
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"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer."
2
"I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can."
Mind,
2
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