Quotes About Mind

I've focused for hypnos in the past, and they didn't feel

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

If your mind is attuned to beauty, you find beauty in everything.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

In the mind of western man, there is nearly always a tendency to overrate suffering. This tendency is inherited from Christianity and Romanticism. One has, for centuries, considered suffering to be an atonement, a purification, and a cause of uplift. Suffering may comprise such virtues but not necessarily so.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. I get inspiration from working. I just have to push through and finally it'll start to come together again. The brain is always going, you just don't realize it.

It's harder to kill people. The empathy is so much stronger that the mind must invent new reasons. But, if we can somehow link it to our own survival, the mind will make the devious twists and turns necessary to rationalize it. We're very good at that.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Every psychological explanation comes sooner or later to lean either on biology or on logic (or on sociology, but this in turn leads to the same alternatives).

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.

My mind, as is so often the case these days, was totally blank.

After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little bits of sparkle and electrical fizz.

Her mind is a pink mesh-bag filled with baby toes.

I don't believe that dreams tell what is to come, I think they are the things that are going on in our subconscious swimming to the surface while we are asleep.)

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.