Quotes About Mind

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

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.

As an actor, I know that any feelings you're showing are manufactured. But I still don't want to fool my mind into thinking my wife's into another guy.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.