The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Cinema is a reflection of society. It has the power to change and influence minds.

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to ‘dissolve’ harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved

I’m nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.

The spirit of irony … the whiskey of the mind.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I’m sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin

Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind

Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind Alzheimer’s. You buy one magazine, and you’re entertained for the rest of your life.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind

It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about “the old unscientific days”. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Always keep your mind that the very moment when your life may stifle you anyway, then it is the true sign that your life is actually not yours.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Always keep in mind that whatever you may see had well begun that may always turn out to be half-ended.

Always keep in your mind the best stories you will always see in reality.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.

I allowed my mind to wander. I’ve found this to be a very effective way of passing the time; you take a situation or a person and start to imagine nice things that might happen. You can make anything happen, anything at all, inside a daydream.

When thou dost put thy mind unto the task, Thou mayst accomplish nearly anything.

A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits.”

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine

There is nothing in your mind which wasn’t experienced before hand

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick’s skull.

She was the kind of woman who, once she had made up her mind to like somebody, even if it had been an impulsive decision, would invest that person with all sorts of interesting and romantic aspects rather than admit she had been wrong.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don’t bend.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong

The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn’t have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It’s just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven’t found anybody to play nationally.

Empower Your Mind Anywhere Anytime

The only kind of revolution that I am interested in is one where the mind itself is liberated

I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you’re responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually – the way I see it – your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind

I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still see you every day Because in my heart and mind you stay.

You’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Once again you’ve put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

When I left Spain, I had it very clear in my mind that I would return one day

You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine.

In short, if your average voter had five key issues in mind, scored each candidate on them, and weighted them in order of importance, it was easy to understand how perfectly reasonable and rational people might have voted for Donald Trump without being deplorable bigots.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Guess I’m hanging’ by myself but I don’t mind.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind

I can’t wait until I touch the stage, I’m going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you

You’re Always In My Mind

I’m Not A Follower. I’m A Leader. And Anyone Who Speaks Their Mind Is Always Criticised

Wherever My Curiosity Takes Me, I Follow. If I Fucking Hate It, I’m On To The Next Thing. A Lot Of People Don’t Move Like That And It Just Boggles My Mind. It’s Like A Math Problem I Can’t Comprehend

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered

Reading is a journey of the mind

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognized by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

My mind is my own church

A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe’s will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance’s of theism’s truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.

The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration

A metaphysician is one who believes it when toxins from a dilapidated liver makes his brain whisper that mind is the boss of liver.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other menfir

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of
high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

I’m in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don’t mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

Yogi Bhajan shows us that a key to being the master of your own mind is to learn how to forgive yourself. So for today, just for one minute, practice forgiving yourself.

Our problem is that we choose to deny love. In fact, we only have one problem: that our mind chooses fear over love.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

I didn’t know what was going through my mind.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

True education should focus on the whole person, nurturing both the mind and the heart.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity

I can’t put my mind to anything else. I’m not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it’s all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it’s football the whole time. I think I’m obsessed!

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment

I’ll walk up to a woman, I’ll say the first thing that comes to mind: ‘Hey, you hungry?’

If you have some mind; When you cannot find the conditions you want for happiness, you should know how to be happy under the conditions you find.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Empower Your Mind Anywhere Anytime.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read

Unbind your mind, there is no time

We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

With that in mind, I try to imagine the greatest gift I could’ve given my father. And as sleep descends on me, the answer seems strangely clear: my faith in his idols. That was what he wanted all along – to feel that we were united by something permanent, to know that as long as he and I believed in the same thing, we would never be apart.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

A driver today is an athlete out for hire, his mind is on profit.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you’d prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Victory is achieved through a lot of things, but first and foremost, the mind.

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind – As if my Brain had split – I tried to match it – Seam by Seam – But could not make them fit.

To hang our head — ostensibly — And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind — Affords the sly presumption That, someplace, — we can hide —

Publication – is the Auction Of the Mind of Man.

The heart is the capital of the mind.

One act of disrespect or disobedience may cloud the mind and close the door of the heart to the sweet voice of the Holy Spirit.

I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.

Every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

I want to run with a relaxed mind.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind.

I’m sending a message to every individual in this world that when you work hard, when you actually concentrate, when you set your priorities high, when you actually set your goals, and put them in your heart and in your mind and in your mind, you will accomplish, without any question.

My mind was clear… From the first kilometer to the last kilometer, I knew I had it.

When I have a lot of pain, I try to confuse my mind to forget about the pain and think about the distance.

In any profession, you should think positively. That’s the driver of your mind. If your mind is really thinking positive then you are on the right track. ‘Pleasure in what you’re doing puts perfection in your work.

In the offseason I allow my body to recover, my mind to recover.

If you don’t rule your mind, your mind will rule you.