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Mind Quotes
"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,
31
"Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories."
31
"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
Mind,
31
"I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona."
31
"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."
Mind,
31
"Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness."
31
"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."
Mind,
31
"I'm still thanking all the stars, one by one."
31
"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future."
31
"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
31
"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
31
"Like an empty bucket, my soul rings hollow when empty vibrates with emptiness, hollow sound of loneliness. Every cell in my body does not want to be alone.My loneliness is frightening, an all consuming thought."
31
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
30
"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."
30
"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
30
"Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?"
30
"Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind."
Mind,
30
"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
30
"Invariably, we all are 'MIND LORDS'."
30
"Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, 'Oh, I know that. It's old hat.'And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart.Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you?"
30
"The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient."
30
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
30
"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."
29
"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."
29
"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
Mind,
29
"I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out."
Mind,
29
"I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story."
Mind,
29
"In this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's method of evaluating stimuli, of orienting herself or himself to every experience, that he or she cannot separate him - or herself enough from anxiety to comprehend the goal of avoidance of, or freedom from, anxiety. What Nancy sought was to be able to step cautiously from rock to rock without falling; the idea or possibility of not being on a precipice at all did not occur to her."
29
"That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific - chair, eye, stone - but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out."
29
"Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing."
29
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
28
"I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me."
Mind,
28
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