Top 100 Mind Thinking Sayings
#1. Whatever I fed to his mind, thinking it was nutrition was, in fact, poison. No matter how much a person likes or craves sugar, he should not be raised on the diet of only sugar ~ Rudransh Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#2. Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
A. Curtiss
#3. It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
Jamie Dornan
#4. I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#5. Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?"
"Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth."
"Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.
MaryJanice Davidson
#6. Spontaneous storms, and changes in color that were not tied to changes in wind speeds, and fractal borders, bounded infinities scrolling inside each other. We were looking at a mind thinking. A mind feeling.
The woodwind glissando of the whale's cry.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#7. I'm not trying to compliment you! I thought I was going to go out of my damn mind thinking about you being in California. I swore to myself that I wouldn't call you, and when you got back, I was going to accept your choice. But you drove to my house. You're here. I don't know what to do with that.
Jamie McGuire
#8. He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.
Richard Yates
#9. I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.
Kevin Brooks
#10. What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the "life of the mind": thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.
Gary Gutting
#11. Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a little differently in an ideal shape which haunts the brain when we least expect it.
Virginia Woolf
#12. Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Paul Tournier
#13. I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.
Tom Rachman
#14. Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#17. So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat
#18. Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.
Jeff Horowitz
#19. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James
#22. I'm more of a comedian. I wouldn't mind being on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I think that would be cool.
Cheyenne Kimball
#23. Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
#24. Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai Lama
#25. Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored
Bertrand Russell
#27. A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.
Kelsey Grammer
#28. When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.
Shunryu Suzuki
#29. If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
Meryl Streep
#30. In each mind resides a potential so potent.
They make us think that we ain't got it.
Wiz Khalifa
#31. Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind
C.L. Bennett
#32. [Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#33. And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control.
Claire Hennessy
#34. Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
Charlotte M. Mason
#35. Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.
Norman Vincent Peale
#36. My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I'm supposed to be thinking about one thing, I'm actually thinking of five other things.
Ben Mitchell
#37. Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.
Doug Collins
#38. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
Yann Martel
#40. A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.
Hany Abu-Assad
#41. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.
Grace Paley
#42. Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.
Etienne Gilson
#43. The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.
Lysa TerKeurst
#44. It was never just about painting everything white, I set out to create comfortable spaces - visually comfortable spaces. My mind always feels a little scrambled, so being in simple rooms helps me to think straight.
John Pawson
#45. If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.
Les Brown
#46. Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a fit of insane bitterness, not with cool courage, not with brave quick thinking, not with presence of mind - but with absence of it.
Kenneth Roberts
#47. I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#48. When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
#49. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman
Huston Smith
#50. Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
Claude M. Bristol
#51. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#52. I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.
Stephen Malkmus
#53. And spare me the jokes about scoring."
"Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?"
"It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts."
"So, ninety-five percent of the time.
Cassandra Clare
#54. Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.
Rebecca Goldstein
#55. whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#56. Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the
Lisa Wingate
#57. The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.
Sam Raimi
#58. It is ... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
Dalai Lama
#61. In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true, and those are the types of stories that I like to tell.
Larry Fessenden
#62. Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
#63. The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.
Nicholas G. Carr
#64. Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.
Denzel Whitaker
#65. In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives
#67. Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
David O. McKay
#68. It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.
Christine Caine
#69. Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
Sri Aurobindo
#70. What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.
David Jeremiah
#71. The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Thomas A. Edison
#72. In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression of what is likely to occur, do come to mind, but I let the rest of the story take its own course. I don't want to spend as long as two years writing a story whose plot I already know.
Haruki Murakami
#73. The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.
John Cheever
#74. Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
#75. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.
Mortimer J. Adler
#76. I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate
Pat Buchanan
#77. I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.
Hunter S. Thompson
#78. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
Carole Lombard
#79. Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.
Connie Willis
#80. The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.
Pearl Zhu
#81. You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.
Joel Osteen
#82. Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.
Maddy Malhotra
#83. You have got to have a concept of the volume around here."
"Was the dream wishful thinking, or could Spirit be indestructible, like the conservation of matter, hidden from the conscious mind but perceived by the unconscious?
Phil Arnold
#84. I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind
Marc Benioff
#85. I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into it. I didn't expect to be so emotional, but I asked for it really. I'ma glutton for punishment.
Sophie Anderton
#86. When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.
Ram Dass
#87. If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
Thomas Browne
#88. Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
Seth Lloyd
#89. I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand.
Matthew McConaughey
#90. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.
Margo T. Rose
#91. You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are
Claude M. Bristol
#92. Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.
Jerry Stahl
#93. The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
Isaac Asimov
#94. You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good.
Trevor Bayne
#95. I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking - I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?
Ben Aaronovitch
#96. [On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
Diane Ackerman
#98. Eunoia: beautiful thinking; a well mind
Anonymous
#99. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A.A. Milne
#100. Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
Plato
