Quotes About Mind

Nightmares are releases.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island or something where I'm on the beach. Something like that where I can sort of at least try to escape and try to just release my mind into that place that I want to be in, into my relaxing place.

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

I have horrible anxiety.

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.

I have a quite a good understanding of the human body, but I feel like I've got two different people in my head. One of them is saying, 'You shouldn't be eating this' and the other is saying, 'you know you need to.' It's such a challenge.

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.