Quotes About Mind

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.

When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.

He is Razor Ramon. His athletic ability and mind for business... he knew how to connect. He connected with millions around the world.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your mind.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.