Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Mackay

Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.

Jeremy Hardy

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

You've got to put it out of your mind.

Henry Rollins

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

Henry Adams

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

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.

Henry Ford

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

Manly Hall

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Man Ray

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

Mandy Moore

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

Johannes Kepler

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation...

John Adams

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

John Adams

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Jacob Bronowski

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Jack Welch

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

William Shakespeare

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve on juries.

The first thing that comes to mind is athleticism and type of players they have,

Eric Hoffer

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.