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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
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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
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One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
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Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?
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