Quotes About Mind

What's the difference what you watch?" Praeger shot back. "When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you're finished, good-as-gone, condemned to hell. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

The Imaginary Intern and I used to say, 'The mind going is the mind coming,' which we meant not only in terms of the curvature of space-time (and the cosmic boomerang effect), but also in terms of sexual jouissance.

Mind over matter doesn't matter if you're the Mad Hatter with a weak bladder who steals money from his friends and still has to sell all his soggy Depends on eBay anyway, esé!

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Living is a conversation with no end, a dance with no steps, a song with no words, a reason too big for any mind.

Sometimes,I open a book I wrote. Reading the words, they seem to have come from some hidden recess of my mind, far from my waking self, from another mysterious realm. It's a mystery to me. It's the magic of the mind.

To] the progressive mind, the very concept of the enemy is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

Mann has the most closed mind in the scientific community.

Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Where is privacy, if not in the mind?

The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.

The mind fits the world and shapes it as a river fits and shapes its own banks.

A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.

Somewhere inside his head he's still all there, but moved into a cramped rear apartment overlooking the old brain.

We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury, they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason.

We have our body in mind because it helps govern behavior in all manner of situations that could threaten the integrity of the organism and compromise life.