Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Helen Frankenthaler

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

Helen Fisher

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Henepola Gunaratana

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Henepola Gunaratana

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Hector Berlioz

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

Henry David Thoreau

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

Plautus

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Plautus

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Plato

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

Philip Treacy

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

Philip Larkin

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

Paul Weller

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

Phil Jackson

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

LeBron James

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

Laurie R. King

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Lance Armstrong

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

Laini Taylor

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

Lisa See

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Lisa Loeb

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.

Lisa Kleypas

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

John Turner

The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

John Travolta

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

John Stuart Mill

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

John Stuart Mill

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Lee Burke

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

James Joseph Sylvester

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

James Joyce

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.