Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Julia Glass

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

Jules Verne

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

Judith Curry

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

Judi Dench

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

Jim Davis

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Jesse Eisenberg

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

Jesse Eisenberg

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

Jenny Lawson

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

Jenny Holzer

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

Jenny Holzer

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Jenny Holzer

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

Jenna Elfman

AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

Gilbert Ryle

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.

Gilda Radner

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Paul Haggis

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

Paul Auster

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.

Pat Buchanan

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My biggest resource is my mind.

Julia Quinn

He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.

Julia Quinn

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

Julia Quinn

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

Leonardo da Vinci

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.