Quotes About Mind

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?

if you think too hard about anything it's bound to take the fun out of it.

I would later discover it was a bad idea to gather more than two of these people in an enclosed area for any length of time. The stage was not only a physical place but also a state of mind, and the word audience was defined as anyone forced to suffer your company. We young actors were a string of lightbulbs left burning 24 hours a day, exhausting ourselves and others with our self-proclaimed brilliance.

Paper is brain interface. Paul Saffo

Buzz" was Buzz and was conscious. Whether it had happened as a result of Cassi providing it an inner voice, the accumulation of qubits, or reverse engineering its way to a "theory of mind" with help from her human caricature of a face, Pandora no longer had any doubts about their AI having passed the Turing test.

In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling.

When good-enough software is best [You95], you can discipline yourself to write software that's good enough—good enough for your users, for future maintainers, for your own peace of mind.

The mental pane of glass shattered.

if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.

a detached corner of Fofão's brain said.

If you listen to what others say, you may not try at all. If you listen to your body, you may quit too soon. What your mind believes, your body believes. Your mind is the key.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.