Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Iacocca

A good deal is a state of mind.

Terry Tempest Williams

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Terry Tempest Williams

The mind creates those things that exist.

Terry Tempest Williams

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

Terry Tempest Williams

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

Terry Pratchett

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.

Terry Pratchett

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Terry Pratchett

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

Terry Pratchett

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

Terry Pratchett

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Terrell Davis

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

Terence McKenna

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

Terence McKenna

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Terence McKenna

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

Terence McKenna

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

Terence McKenna

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Tony Blair

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Simone de Beauvoir

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Simone Weil

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simon Sinek

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

Simon Sinek

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Simon McBurney

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

Simon McBurney

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

Simon Mawer

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

Richard Branson

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Richard Branson

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

Richard Branson

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

Swami Vivekananda

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

Tina Yothers

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.