Quotes About Making Your Own Mind Up

#1. Knowledge is power. Power in the aspect of making your own mind up;and, not accepting what others tell you.

Temitope Owosela

#2. They feel very stupid and strange, the things going through your mind. You're making us very tired, with all your thinking of stupid imaginary impossible things.

Orson Scott Card

#3. The hot air wrapped me up like a blanket, curling around my body and making me want to hang my tongue out like a dog. And then spray it with water. From a fire hose. On full blast. I don't know, I think the heat was messing with my mind. It

Robert J. Crane

#4. Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

Victoria Jackson

#5. You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

Afrika Bambaataa

#6. I don't mind ironing at all. There's a special satisfaction in making wrinkled things smooth.

Haruki Murakami

#7. My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?

Marcus Aurelius

#8. No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that's where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.

Gisele Bundchen

#9. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. While making a relation always keep in mind that it has to be end one day,so define your position and limits at the very first to avoid any emotional,social and ethical harm.

Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

#11. When I fall in love I take my time
There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind
You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

Jason Mraz

#12. I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

Magic Johnson

#13. Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

Paul Brunton

#14. Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

Valerie Jarrett

#15. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Christofer Emgard

#16. Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Tony Dorsett

#17. What do I call you when I'm making love to you? When I'm fucking you so deep you'll lose your mind?"

~Ryan

Sydney Croft

#18. Listen to your gut, her father was fond of saying, but make up your own damn mind.

Jeremy Robinson

#19. Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.

Pearl Zhu

#20. Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

David Levithan

#21. The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

Eva Cox

#22. If you must make a difference in life, then change your mind set.

Matthew Ashimolowo

#23. Wyatt gave him a look, making it obvious he thought Clay had lost his mind. "You telling me you think a piece of pie's gonna fix my problems?"
"Why not?" Clay laughed. "Fixed mine.

Kele Moon

#24. Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Sebastian Junger

#26. 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

#27. The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Lysa TerKeurst

#28. You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

Sophia Amoruso

#29. The water in the pond inside my heart doesn't shine anymore. It has turned dark. Every ghost from my mind breaks all the barriers and take a dip there, making it darker. and every time it happens, my soul in the pond cries with pain.

Akshay Vasu

#30. We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

William Shakespeare

#32. The terror ran endlessly on in his mind, making him feel like a rat trapped on an exercise wheel. And when he tried to look ahead to some better, brighter time, he could see only darkness.

Stephen King

#33. Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

Thomas Huxley

#34. Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make

Mohit Dhaka

#35. I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Fred W. Friendly

#36. when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man - they only want a vote.

George Eliot

#37. Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your mind, it escalates your evolution and you begin to cycle through many incarnations in one lifetime.

Frederick Lenz

#38. I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

Dan Hicks

#39. And so, now, she runs. In her running, her mind leaves her.
And she can hear nothing but her heart, the blast making her deaf.
There is a great white silent empty in her running.
She runs.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#40. If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

Cosimo Matassa