Mind Quotes - Page 16

• I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Space, Important

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Garth Nix, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.

  Garth Nix

  Thinking, Important, Open Mind

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Garth Nix, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

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• People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Art, Laughter

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Play, Defense

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

  Robert Greene

  Law, Doe, Bears

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

  Robert Greene

  Selfish, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Games, Events

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

  Robert Greene

  Moving, Past, Feelings

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: 4chanlit.wikia.com

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• I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I`m not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.

  Rachel Dratch

  Baby, Want, Engraved

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• You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Clarity, Moments, Ends

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• Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Character, Mean

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.

  Steven Tyler

  Couple, Memories, Ideas

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• I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

  Mick Jagger

  Mean, Worry, Criticism

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• The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

  Byron Katie

  Pain, Moving, Focus

  "Doing the Work". Interview with Melissa Bond, www.catalystmagazine.net. April 30, 2007.

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• There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Needs, Looks

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.

  Byron Katie

  Exercise, Enough, Balanced

  "A Thousand Names for Joy: An Interview with Byron Katie" by Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. February 1, 2007.

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• When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

  Byron Katie

  Creative, Unlimited, Unleashed

  "A Thousand Names for Joy: An Interview with Byron Katie" by Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. February 1, 2007.

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• Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Suffering, Ends, Deserve

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

  Byron Katie

  People, Needs, Wake Up

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

  Byron Katie

  Depressing, Thinking, Creative

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

  Byron Katie

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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