Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthieu Ricard

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

Matthieu Ricard

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

Matt Smith

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Matthew Arnold

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

Meg Ryan

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Maya Angelou

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Max Weber

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Max Brooks

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Marilynne Robinson

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Marilynne Robinson

Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.

Marilynne Robinson

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

Marilynne Robinson

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Maria Montessori

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Maria Montessori

The development of the mind comes through movement

Edward de Bono

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Edward de Bono

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward Albee

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

Edith Hamilton

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Eckhart Tolle

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

Eckhart Tolle

Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.

Eckhart Tolle

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Eckhart Tolle

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Eckhart Tolle

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

Dan Jenkins

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Holbrook Jackson

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Jonathan Haidt

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Joyce Carol Oates

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Justin Vernon

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

Richard Dawkins

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.

Richard Wilbur

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.