Quotes About Mind

I now believe that television itself, the medium of sitting in front of a magic box that pulses images at us endlessly, the act of watching TV, per se, is mind crushing. It is soul deadening, dehumanizing, soporific in a poisonous way, ultimately brutalizing. It is, simply put so you cannot mistake my meaning, a bad thing.

I don't ever want to hear that scream outside my head.

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.

It's just what Wendell Phillips said," she declared. "' The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

Try fighting with your head for a change . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning -Atticus

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.

My memory stirred.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind—" "I thought fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom." "It's the same thing. Humility.

when I asked Atticus about it, he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about my business, he didn't mind me much the way I was.

Chi ha una mente saggia non si inorgoglisce delle proprie doti

should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

It's no good living in a world at peace if your own head is at war with itself.

The harder you push at an unreliable memory, the less reliable it

That's all there is to it. It's like grabbing your mind by the scruff of the neck and forcing it to think of a specific thing at a specific moment. Force yourself to do it at first, and it will become habitual before you know it.

Applied to reading material, the idea forces you to read actively, with concentration; applied to lectures, it does the same thing. It's difficult to allow your mind to wander when you're listening for Key Words to remind you of thoughts. The next time you want to remember more of reading or lecture material than you usually do, try applying what you've learned here. You'll be surprised at how much you retain.

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.