- Memory
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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.
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- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I'm fired up, but in my mind, I'm calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let's go.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
- Fanatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to body build six or seven days a week. I was really, really fit. I wasn't naturally talented but I was fanatical at it. That's the problem with me, I've got a one-track mind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020