Quotes About Mind

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For me, it is nice to get away from the soccer field and have these other things to clear your mind. You don't have to be good at it; you just do it and enjoy it. It is nice to have that balance, and I need that balance in my life.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Comebacks are not at all easy. After a major surgery, the difficult part is to conquer the inner demons. It's all in the mind. Only an individual can overcome his fears.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

You only have one brain. There's no replacement surgery for that.

Something was causing me not to be able to sleep, and then after a while your brain doesn't want to turn off and go to sleep. And so it was constant battle with that. But as soon as I had the neck surgery, I started sleeping again.

Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it's better than a script you've worked out ahead of time.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

In lacrosse, Cherokee men tested their strength, endurance, and ability to withstand pain. Before the games, they prepared their minds as well as their bodies.

The more you reason the less you create.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings

Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe.

It was expected that one day Tinuva would join the ranks of the Spellweavers, for his mind was showing more and more skill in using the native magic of his race.

In fact, I have the feeling that someday you may use that logical mind of yours for the betterment of magic.