Mind Elsewhere Quotes

#1. Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

George Harrison

#2. I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

Karina Cooper

#3. Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.

Charles Ghigna

#4. President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

Conan O'Brien

#5. The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

W. H. Auden

#6. When your mind is wandering about elsewhere you have no chance to express yourself. But if you limit your activity to what you can do just now, in this moment, then you can express fully your true nature, which is the universal Buddha nature.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. She tends to get distracted. Her mind wanders and amuses itself elsewhere.

Terry Pratchett

#8. In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. my stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom, the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere.

Ivan Doig

#10. Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.

Billy Graham

#11. For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.
(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

John Calvin

#12. All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Nikita Khrushchev

#13. [T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.

Vincent De Paul

#14. And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

Victor Hugo

#15. It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what's wrong with them, but why bother?

Charles Lee

#16. No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.

W.H. Davies

#17. You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

Anthony Burgess

#18. Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

Stephen Levine

#19. A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

Jimmy Wales

#20. Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Howard Shore

#21. I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

James Agee

#22. Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Joyce Meyer

#23. All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

LL Cool J

#24. Right is not this or that doctrine or opinion; right is rational discussion about shared experience between honorable people leading to mutual understanding and tolerance.

Dee Hock

#25. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig