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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
- Corey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.
- Getting Older
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
- Exercising
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
- Nov 07, 2020
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020