Quotes About Mind

A maioria das vezes, por não se ligarem a palavras, meus pensamentos permanecem nebulosos. Desenham formas vagas e agradáveis, submergem: esqueço-os imediatamente.

it would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns:

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.