Quotes About Mind

Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he shows them as a revelation, not of what we ought to be but of what we are at a given time and under given circumstances; that is, as a limited revelation but revelation nevertheless.

His thoughts were heavy as if they had to struggle up through some dense medium to reach the surface of his mind.

True culture is in the mind, the mind," he said, and tapped his head, "the mind." "It's in the heart," she said, "and in how you do things and how you do things is because of who you are." "Nobody in the damn bus cares who you are." "I care who I am," she said icily.

Marilynne Robinson has written that "fear is not a Christian habit of mind.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

Emotions interest me, and I'm fascinated by how a child's mind works.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

It's to your advantage to work your brain as well as your body. The rest is up to fate.

Love me or hate me, it's all in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as excellent data that feeds my mind as nature feeds my body.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

Few things focus the mind like fear.

Saroj Kumar is a fictitious character who is free to think anything.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.