Quotes About Mind

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Without a stable mind, it's difficult for anything else to function.

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.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

A lot of actors will complain about the green screen work, but what you do get to do is what you probably should have learned, from the beginning, on stage. You have to create it in your mind and really go there to bring it. Part of the fun of acting is those challenges. You feel goofy, but sometimes that's a good feeling.

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.