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I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.
When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.
There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.
All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.
It was Scripture that I had hidden in my heart that quickly came to mind when my frustration felt stronger than my faith.
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible.
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.
apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.
Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world.
You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.