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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.
I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is bad.
I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.
That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.
All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it's merely a state of mind.
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.
It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.
But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.
The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.