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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.
Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.
If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.
You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.
So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.
The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.
Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.
There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.
When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body
One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew
How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.