Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Quinton

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

John P. Kotter

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

John Milton

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

Norman Douglas

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Norman Cousins

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Norm MacDonald

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

Noel Clarke

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

Noel Coward

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

Noel Coward

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Nita Ambani

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Mitch Albom

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

Taylor Caldwell

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

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.

Lenny Kravitz

Being free is a state of mind.

Lenny Kravitz

Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.