Mind It Quotes

#1. The real University ... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues ... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Paul Theroux

#3. Live Life with No Regrets. If it's still on your mind, it is worth doing it.

Leanne Bermuda

#4. After many years of his melancholy he realized that love
as understood by most of the people in the world, is mostly love of
the intellect, of the mind. It associates them with certain image of
love which a person has seen, read or heard.

Raj Doctor

#5. I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little ... We measure our performance in seconds.

William H. Macy

#6. Must Thibault imagine the animal (who was long since dead but when and how? He couldn't remember) skinned and braised? Milou as dinner. Once something is named it can never be eaten. Once you have called it brother in your mind it should enjoy the freedoms of a brother.

Ann Patchett

#7. There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

Natalie Zea

#8. Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?
Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

Georgette Heyer

#9. Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation.

Eileen Cady

#10. It was that feeling that she had had walking along beside him that put the notion in her mind. It comes from being alone too much. Things matter that wouldn't if you had a regular life.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

Dillon Burroughs

#12. The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity od the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Beauty lies in one's heart and sex lies in one mind. It all depends on where your belief lies.

Ravindra Shukla

#14. Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

Harmony Korine

#15. I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

Josh Holloway

#16. As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

Ester Dean

#17. I don't think about that day the crazy lady tried to shoot Abby but got you instead. It was an awful day. When it does cross my mind, I turn it around and think about something nice, like Abby's pussy. I just take a deep breath and picture it in my mind. It's my happy place.

Sophie Oak

#18. each had felt that he was offered a choice between a shadow full of fear that lay ahead, and something that he greatly desired: clear before his mind it lay, and to get it he had only to turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#20. The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

Tom Mix

#21. They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

Virginia Woolf

#22. To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

John Mayall

#23. Faith, to me, is knowing in the solid core of your soul that the work is already done, even as the idea is being conceived in your mind. It is being as sure as you are about your dreams as you are about anything you know as a hard fact."

Rep. John Lewis, D-GA

T.D. Davis

#24. Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#25. There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.

Paulo Coelho

#26. When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale.

Debasish Mridha

#28. A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Sylvester Stallone

#30. Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

Alfred North Whitehead

#31. Only you," she said, as if she could read his mind. "It'll only ever be you, Carmine.

J.M. Darhower

#32. Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Joanna Russ

#33. Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

Nelson Mandela

#34. Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.

Kelly Miller

#35. Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#36. If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

Mary Gordon

#37. He loved Jaime. He loved him so much sometimes he thought he must certainly be losing his mind. It was hard to believe his heart could go on beating minute after minute, day after day, when it felt so distorted and huge and fragile.

Marie Sexton

#38. I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

Alice Oswald

#39. You can hurt my body, but not my mind. It is eternally free and always kind.

Debasish Mridha

#40. The night has made up its mind. It's we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand

Amanda Coplin

#41. A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

Mary Ruefle

#42. It's a very bizarre thing to have people very concerned with your life, but I don't mind it because all that says to me is that they care about the show, and I can't ask for anything more than that.

Sophia Bush

#43. The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

Terence McKenna

#44. Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.

Donna Tartt

#45. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Ayn Rand

#46. If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Jude Morgan

#47. When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to agitate me, and this agitation is what keeps me from evolving forward.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#48. Her mind. It was far stronger than any muscle in her body.

Cecelia Ahern

#49. Cultivate your mind - it will blossom beyond your expectations

Robin S. Sharma

#50. My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

Win Butler

#51. Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

H.P. Lovecraft

#52. Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

#53. Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

Ali Banisadr

#54. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Vivekananda

#55. You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

Donald Faison

#56. When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

John McLaughlin

#57. Art being a thing of the mind, it follows that any scientific study of art will be psychology. It may be other things as well, but psychology it will always be.

Max J. Friedlander

#58. I was obviously out of my mind. It was your job to talk me down off the ledge, not hand me a cape and tell me I could fly.

Abigail Strom

#59. Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

Zara Phillips

#60. Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

Deepak Chopra

#61. There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.

George Burns

#62. I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

Skrillex

#63. A past incident is not what agitates the mind; it is the amount of attention we give it that unsettles us.

Shubha Vilas

#64. It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#65. But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.

Alex Winter

#66. I was brought up to think that women were inhibited, but they sure are not with me. I guess I am lucky or there is something about me that makes them feel totally comfortable, open, and expressive. I don't mind; it feels good and the rest unfolds naturally.

J.F. Kelly

#67. If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

Kristen Stewart

#68. It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

Jennifer Lawrence

#69. Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!

Bob Proctor

#70. So, weak-minded, good souls, please don't try to develop this power. Remember, once a bad spirit gets control of your mind it is really difficult to drive it out.

Khorshed Bhavnagri

#71. It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

Chantal Kreviazuk

#72. Financial fitness is not pipe dream or a state of mind it's a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it.

Will Robinson

#73. Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Jerry Bridges

#74. Too many people would rather fight to the death to defend their bullhead positions. Tyrone was impressed whenever someone changed their mind. It meant acting on reason, and with reason came self-improvement.

Jack Kilborn

#75. But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#76. Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Lord Chesterfield

#77. I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

George Sand

#78. There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Robert Frost

#79. True culture is in the mind, the mind," he said, and tapped his head, "the mind." "It's in the heart," she said, "and in how you do things and how you do things is because of who you are." "Nobody in the damn bus cares who you are." "I care who I am," she said icily.

Flannery O'Connor

#80. Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

Frederick Lenz

#81. September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.

Patience Strong

#82. Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

Esther Hicks

#83. Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes ... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.

Arshile Gorky

#84. The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

Louise Hay

#85. Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Edmund Burke

#86. Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all.

Nalini Singh

#87. I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Augusten Burroughs

#88. Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

George William Curtis

#89. Would you?" said Gabriel to Will, hotly. "If it was your family?" His lip curled. "Never mind. It's not as if you know the meaning of loyalty - "
"Gabriel." Gideon's voice was a reprimand to his brother. "Do not speak to Will in that manner.

Cassandra Clare

#90. Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

Frederick Lenz

#91. It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#92. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

Jim Rohn

#93. Always keep in mind ... It is extremely important to start each and every one of your days with a positive perspective ... it will get you everywhere!

Timothy Pina

#94. I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.

Craig Nicholls

#95. Being an entrepreneur isn't just a job title, and it isn't just about starting a company. It's a state of mind. It's about seeing connections others can't, seizing opportunities others won't, and forging new directions that others haven't.

Tory Burch

#96. Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.

Frances Wright

#97. Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

#98. I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Jean De La Bruyere

#99. The magic of "Musical Medicine" will come into its own. The application of such healing potencies will not be limited just to man's body and mind. It will be an agency for building and healing his soul as well.

Corinne Heline

#100. I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

Christopher Walken