- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I’m not doing 'Strictly,' I genuinely like to wake up and start with yoga, because it’s good for the mind, not just the body.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020