Well Stocked Mind Quotes

#1. The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph,

Phillip Lopate

#3. The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one's house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor.

Dimitris Mita

#4. In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Mary Ann Mobley

#5. I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

Blanka Vlasic

#6. What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Gustav Mahler

#7. I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

Audie Murphy

#8. ... Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.

Nancy Kress

#9. I don't want you to go." She reached up to touch his face and pull him down to her. "I want this, Rain. I want you.

C.L. Wilson

#10. He falls in love because he doesnt want to.

Gwen Calvo

#11. To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.

Terence McKenna

#12. We're not wounded, Liis. We're matching scars.

Jamie McGuire

#13. I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.

Elon Musk

#14. Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

Bruce Springsteen

#15. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

Jane Austen

#16. He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

Vasily Grossman