Quotes About Minds

I'm really interested in how people's minds work - what makes them sad or happy.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

The way elections are won in Minnesota is by talking to people and sharing what's on their minds. It sounds so simple, but it really is the thing that works.

Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success.

Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of weathers, was a strange woman of curious fascinations never seen elsewhere: there might be some devilry about her presence.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Leadership is knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts and minds of the larger world. ~ Using philosophy and history to create emotional appeals to shape broad public sentiment.

The whole business was so completely unthinkable that my mind, like almost all the other minds that were in the same situation, simply stopped trying to cope with it, and refixed its focus on the ordinary routine of life.

ideas are exactly as interested in the brains they're in as genes are in the bodies they're in: just enough to get themselves copied...Like computer viruses.

PHILIPPIANS 4:6–7 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Still Time, great wizard of this earth, Who holds o'er human minds such sway! Oft bids to scenes of later birth Old recollections to give way.

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

To say, "This morning I want to preach to you a doctrinal sermon," is to hear the loud report of a thousand minds clicking off at one time.

The underlying idea is none other than that the times preceding the parousia require a unique concentration of the minds of believers upon the Lord and the manner in which they may best please Him.