Quotes About Mind

I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell.

When I was at Villa and I was captain there and I had the opportunity to go to City, it played on my mind I wouldn't be as pivotal. So initially I didn't want to go, but a lot of things happened behind the scenes and I realised I had to go.

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.

The very first individual that breaks out in my mind as a top villain is Gorgeous George, and it's hard to beat the first guy.

Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where you enjoy the process of loathing them so much that you want them to be there. It's such a weird, twisted thing that our minds do.

In the real world, most criminals and powerful persons look lean and use only their mind. Only in films we see villains with a six-pack.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.

After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the 'Age of Aquarius,' the time of the mind's true liberation.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.