Quotes About Mind

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

When you have a healthy body and mind that's when you can follow your purpose and passion.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

Some of my cousins who wanted to pursue acting were always taking pictures and meeting people. I could never think of doing all this. Doing films was the last thing on my mind.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.

The way I build stuff in my mind, it's sort of like a puzzle for me. I always talk about it like, when I'm writing a scene there's a certain feeling I'm trying to create. I'll have my list of scenes and it's more like feelings, these notes I want to hit.

I'm a puzzle doer.

We're all normal, flawed people who have off-the-cuff thoughts.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Even when I meditate, I imagine myself in a dance movie, doing these turns and flips.

I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.