Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Mahatma Gandhi

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Gene Wolfe

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

Gene Wolfe

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Gay Talese

Listen, then make up your own mind.

Joy Page

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Joyce Brothers

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

Joseph Priestley

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Joseph Murray

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Joseph Murphy

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

Joseph Murphy

A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life.

Joseph Pilates

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

Joseph Pilates

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

Joseph Pilates

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

Joseph Pilates

It is the mind that shapes the body

Joseph Pilates

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Joseph Pilates

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

Joseph Pilates

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

Joseph Pilates

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Julianna Baggott

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

Julianne Hough

I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.

Juan Gris

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

Joshua Prager

What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Joshua Reynolds

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Joshua Reynolds

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Joshua Reynolds

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

Karl Lagerfeld

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Karl Lagerfeld

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Kacey Musgraves

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