Top 100 Mind What Quotes
#1. Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
Nikki Grimes
#2. Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.
Sherry Thomas
#3. All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck.
MaryJanice Davidson
#5. Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
Jeffrey Kluger
#6. I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. Envision in your mind what you expect from life, focus on your plan ... whether good or bad you can anticipate its arrival. The choice is then yours to accept it.
Mark W. Boyer
#8. Whether our new start was going to end in success or failure didn't cross my mind. What I did know, and know consciously, was that it was already exciting.
Maya Angelou
#9. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter
#10. You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.
Kent Allan Rees
#11. Rin-zai also says: "Spirit is formless, but it penetrates through the world in the ten directions."[FN#149] The Sixth Patriarch expresses the same idea more explicitly: "What creates the phenomena is Mind; what transcends all the phenomena is Buddha."[FN#150]
Kaiten Nukariya
#12. Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
Thomas Hooker
#13. Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha did not mind what you said to be polite.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#14. Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time
Esther Hicks
#16. They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.
Charles Dickens
#17. Never mind what I say, Robert! I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
#18. Great, he can't read my mind. What I'd give to be dating Charles Xavier - though
Krista Ritchie
#19. I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
Alfred North Whitehead
#20. Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave us kindness. And other qualities to balance other flaws.
Marcus Aurelius
#21. Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one thought at a time. Think solid. Then act. Is it?
Richard Llewellyn
#22. Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#23. Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don't want to mind. Mind the things that get closer to your mind and mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#24. I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
Kristin Hersh
#25. You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.
David B. Haight
#26. This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
Eckhart Tolle
#27. I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.
Alice Eve
#28. It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
Leon Brown
#29. Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.
Jodi Picoult
#30. She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past ... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been?
Cornelia Funke
#31. Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I'm sort of crazy baffoon who can't make up his mind what to do in life
George Plimpton
#32. Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.
Thomas Hood
#34. I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.
Rupert Murdoch
#35. Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility
I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!
I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is
chilly for a man without clothes.
H.G.Wells
#36. They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed-never mind what it was-as opposed to discussing birth control.
Jay Asher
#37. By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Edward Livingston
#38. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.
Isak Dinesen
#39. We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.
Frederick Lenz
#40. You are like the captain of a ship, and it is your job to tell the crew (your body and mind) what to do. If you don't, you will end up making one bad choice after another. If
John Paul Khoury
#41. In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.
Charles E. Bohlen
#42. I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
William Devane
#43. They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. The women took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away for remembrance.
Zora Neale Hurston
#44. The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.
Karen Joy Fowler
#45. Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do
Charles Fillmore
#46. When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.
Louisa May Alcott
#47. All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?
Richelle Mead
#49. I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
Les Dawson
#50. The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.
Glendon Swarthout
#51. It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things?
Shantideva
#52. Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
#53. When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .
Charles Sanders Peirce
#55. Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
#56. And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.
Stefan Zweig
#57. I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
Luke Evans
#58. I've always been this way. This is who I am. Take it or leave it. You'll either hate me or you'll love me. I have a strong personality which isn't necessarily good or bad. I really don't mind what people in Oklahoma who I don't know think of me. I really only care about the people in my life.
Heidi Montag
#59. The fact that I have such a problem that people ... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.
Werner Klemperer
#60. I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.
Zephyr Teachout
#61. I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?
Erin Morgenstern
#62. Never mind what lies behind Death, Mr. Bast, but be sure that the poet and the musician and the tramp will be happier in it than the man who has never learnt to say, 'I am I.
E. M. Forster
#63. I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
Daniel Cudmore
#64. Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele
#65. Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
Terry Goodkind
#66. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.
Rolf Dobelli
#67. Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
Pythagoras
#68. Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As
Julia Glass
#69. I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
#70. And in your deranged mind, what do you think the lesson of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is?" Alex challenged him. "Easy," Conner said. "Lock your doors! Robbers come in all shapes and sizes. Even curly-haired little girls can't be trusted." Alex grunted again and crossed her arms.
Chris Colfer
#71. It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?
Eckhart Tolle
#72. Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.
Lauren Lola
#73. The Girl Scout's motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as - well, never mind what. My duty is - to be useful. I am a friend to male animals. I am cheerful. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought, word, and deed.
Vladimir Nabokov
#74. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
#75. I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.
George Clooney
#76. Never mind what I told you
you do as I tell you.
W.C. Fields
#77. No one starts a war
or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so
without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#78. Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
#79. A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#80. Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
Lemony Snicket
#81. Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.
T.I.
#82. Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
Erica Sehyun Song
#84. I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.
Sheldon Adelson
#85. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
#86. I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
#87. Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.
Cain Velasquez
#88. When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
William Gurnall
#89. Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
William J.H. Boetcker
#90. So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.
William McDonough
#91. Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon
#92. 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
#93. It was odd. As a girl, Sophie would have shriveled with embarrassment at the way she was behaving. As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.
Diana Wynne Jones
#94. We all know in our mind what we want, but nobody know exactly what we Get.
Jan Jansen
#95. When we meditate, we are really trying to go beyond the mind. What I have found is that if I can get totally and completely into the moment, then the mind disappears. And as the mind disappears, that's when God appears.
Wayne Dyer
#96. I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#97. By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
Sydney J. Harris
#98. The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?
Lia Mills
#100. Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
George S. Patton
