Top 25 Supple Mind Quotes
#1. Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.
Geeta Iyengar
#2. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?
John Steinbeck
#3. Read as much as you can to keep the mind as supple as a baby's bum.
Jeff Bjune
#4. A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.
Gregory Maguire
#5. Doing a lot of reading is not the prerequisite to writing.
Larry Brooks
#6. I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Samuel Ullman
#9. The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Gail Z. Martin
#10. He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi.
Neil Gaiman
#11. The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel Achard
#12. Kestrel let the words echo in her mind. There had been a supple strength to his voice. An unconscious melody. Kestrel wondered if Arin knew how he exposed himself as a singer with every simple, ordinary word. She wondered if he meant to hold her in thrall.
Marie Rutkoski
#13. The morgue looked deserted, though in fact it was never unattended.
Jefferson Bass
#14. You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Owen Wilson
#15. If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
John Locke
#16. Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.
Salman Rushdie
#17. [Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
Jacques Bertin
#18. In his mind a protective glaze had been applied to the crystal forms of high abstraction: he loved to regard them, and to wonder at their shine, but he had never thought to take them down from their carved and oaken mantel, so to speak, and feel them, supple in his hands.
Eleanor Catton
#19. I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.
Craig M. Mullaney
#20. I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
Carol Ann Duffy
#21. The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son
Kin Hubbard
#23. To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that he crafted a superbly supple and elegant style, apparently well suited to the kind of prose Aschenbach is supposed to write.
Philip Kitcher
#24. In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.
Phillip Lopate
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