Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Glazer

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Tod Machover

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Tim LaHaye

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

Thurston Moore

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

Sam Donaldson

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

Sam Harris

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

Sallust

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

S. E. Hinton

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

S. E. Hinton

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Russell M. Nelson

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

Russell Simmons

I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there's less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.

Sally Pearson

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Saadi

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

Roy H. Williams

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

Rory Stewart

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

Rory McIlroy

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

Rosa Parks

When one’s mind is made up... fear diminishes.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

Sufjan Stevens

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Sharon Salzberg

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Sharon Salzberg

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

Neil Peart

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

Natalie Merchant

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

Natalie Goldberg

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

Natalie Goldberg

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

Swami Vivekananda

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Swami Vivekananda

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Swami Vivekananda

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

Swami Vivekananda

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.