Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Saatchi

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

Maureen McCormick

This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.

Matthew Sweet

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

John Quinton

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

John P. Kotter

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

John Milton

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

Norman Douglas

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Norman Cousins

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Norm MacDonald

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

Noel Clarke

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

Noel Coward

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

Noel Coward

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Nita Ambani

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Mitch Albom

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

John Henrik Clarke

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

John Henry Newman

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

John Hart

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

John Dos Passos

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

John Ortberg

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

John O'Donohue

Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.

John O'Donohue

The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together

John N. Mitchell

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

John Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Dewey

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

John Dewey

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

John Dewey

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

John Dewey

Mind is a verb not a noun.

John Dewey

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

John Carroll

The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

John Calvin

No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

Johann Georg Hamann

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.