Top 84 Quotes About Changing My Mind
#1. How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
Thomas Merton
#2. I threw away over 1,200 finished pages of my last memoir and broke the delete key on my keyboard changing my mind. If I had any balls at all, I'd make a brooch out of it.
Mary Karr
#3. I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.
Pico Iyer
#4. I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.
Regina Taylor
#5. I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.
Selena Gomez
#6. I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Keanu Reeves
#7. There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
Michel Houellebecq
#8. I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
David Bowie
#9. I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
Mel Gibson
#10. The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.
Erin Willett
#11. Silence, and then Eve said, Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.
Rachel Caine
#12. It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.
John Marsden
#13. I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.
Martin Seligman
#14. I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
Barbara Walters
#15. One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself.
Robert Zeidan
#16. You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
Charles Stross
#17. An uncertain and doubting mind leads to fresh world visions and the possibility of new and ever-changing realities.
Michael Shermer
#18. In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#19. When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.
Fernando Torres
#22. If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.
Joel Osteen
#23. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind & my eyes, refusing to be stamped & stereotyped. The thing is to free ones self; to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. (Diary 4: 187)
Thomas C. Caramagno
#24. The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.
John Assaraf
#25. I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.
Jean Beliveau
#27. Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.
Graca Machel
#28. When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
Franklin P. Adams
#29. Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you were wrong about stuff.
Matt Haig
#30. Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.
Timothy Keller
#31. Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.
Kendrick Lamar
#32. Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.
Frederick Lenz
#33. We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.
Willis Harman
#34. I wish someone would give my heart a polygraph; it keeps lying and flipping and changing its mind.
Jasmine Warga
#35. I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Virginia Woolf
#36. With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.
Julie Warner
#37. I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"
Michael J. Fox
#38. Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
Paul Auster
#39. In investing it is never wrong to change your mind. It is only wrong to change your mind and do nothing about it.
Seth Klarman
#41. I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.
Bernie Sanders
#42. Vivienne Westwood, The Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers.
Nana's favorite things never change.
It was so cool for someone like me who keeps on changing their mind.
Ai Yazawa
#43. If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's really just a matter of changing our mind about how we're going to process the events in our lives.
Wayne Dyer
#44. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R.S. Thomas
#45. The moon is the lighthouse of love, and as changing as a woman's mind.
Debasish Mridha
#46. If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.
Dalai Lama
#47. Changing your perspective will change your mind.
Tim Rees
#48. Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.
Amit Ray
#49. The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.
Seth
#50. If you want to test how powerful your mind is, simply start thinking positively and see the results for yourself.
Maddy Malhotra
#51. Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#52. Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way.
Benet Tvedten
#53. As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.
David Cross
#54. Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.
Robert Ferrigno
#55. Death of the mind. Nothing is more illuminating than to follow with M. Foucault the many threads which are woven in this complex book, whether it speaks of changing symptoms, commitment procedures, or treatment. For example: he sees a definite connection
Anonymous
#56. I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#57. Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
Tim Ferriss
#58. Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?
Cassandra Page
#59. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein
#60. By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist
Daisaku Ikeda
#61. A glance toward her digital clock showed the numbers twitching and randomly changing on their own, as though her clock couldn't make up its mind on what time it wanted to be.
Kelly Creagh
#62. Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.
Marianne Williamson
#63. It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.
David Livingstone
#64. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change
Renae A. Sauter
#65. You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
#66. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
A.P. Herbert
#67. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
#68. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?
Sharon Salzberg
#69. I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.
Leigh-Allyn Baker
#70. We can change our outer aspect of life by changing our attitude of mind.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Let your yes be yes and your no be no
you can always change your mind.
Marshall Sylver
#72. Simply with a change of mind, you can change your life.
Deepak Chopra
#73. You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Taylor Swift
#74. One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.
John McAfee
#75. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
#76. A mind that is interested in changing ... is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.
John Cage
#77. IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind - changing, changing, changing.
Pema Chodron
#78. It's funny how happiness can elude you for so long, and then you find out it's as easy as changing your mind."
---From "Hearts Reunited" (book 2 of the Law of Attraction trilogy) by Jeane Watier
Jeane Watier
#79. Even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?
David Sedaris
#80. Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.
Anna Paquin
#81. As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G.K. Chesterton
#82. Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
Susan Jeffers
#83. The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
David Thewlis
#84. New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
Charles Dickens