Quotes About Mind

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.

The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don't speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It's because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

I don't really sleep until gone midnight anyway. It takes me a while to calm down before my mind allows me to switch off.

For many of us, we imagine that separation is crucial, the time for your mind to switch from one thing to another is important. And there are other people who are much more comfortable with that barrier being on a spectrum, always working or always semi-working.

It's great to do something that makes your brain just switch to a different mode, and music can do that really powerfully.

I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It's like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it's so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.

Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.

My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.