Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Brian Aldiss

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

Brenda Strong

We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

Jan Morris

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Dalai Lama

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

Juvenal

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

Evangeline Lilly

Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

Ellen Klages

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

Edward Hall

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

Alanis Morissette

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

Blaise Pascal

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Blaise Pascal

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

Blaise Pascal

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Blaise Pascal

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Billy Bob Thornton

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

Billy Bob Thornton

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Dennis Prager

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Denis Healey

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

Democritus

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Deborah Tannen

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

Demetri Martin

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

Dean Koontz

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Dean Koontz

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Dean Koontz

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

Dean Koontz

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Dean Koontz

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Daniel H. Pink

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.