- Music
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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
- Lamp
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.
- Disciplinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020