Quotes About Mind

I've got rid of the ADD, but I do find it hard to concentrate sometimes.

I'm not good at concentrating.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

I don't know about changing my mind regarding The One-Man Band. I've always personally found him incredibly entertaining, which is one of the reasons why, in the past, I surrounded myself with guys like him. I think he's a complete buffoon, don't get me wrong, but personally, I find him very funny.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations.

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?