Mind Quotes - Page 33

• Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.

  Ernest Holmes

  Adversity, Thinking, Perfect

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.347, Penguin

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• Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

  Meg Rosoff

  Writing, Dark, Self

  "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Reading, Talking

  "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Thinking, Ideas, Empathy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.

  Ian Fleming

  Home, Men, Gossip

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel”, Penguin Group USA

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• The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Morning, Sparkle

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

  Kay Ryan

  Real, Writing, Access

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• We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.

  Paul Watson

  Average, Years, Cities

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• Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to
  believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

  Brian Herbert

  Believe, Want, Matter

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.225, Spectra

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• Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye.  Vision is applied imagination.

  Stephen Covey

  Eye, Imagination, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

  John Dos Passos

  Writing, Generations, Phrases

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Shapes, Next, Projects

  "And the Winner Is: 'The Great Beauty' for Best Foreign Language Film". Interview with Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2014.

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• I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

  David Blaine

  Thinking, Normal, Achieve

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• When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

  Tom Araya

  Trying, Answers, Interviews

  "SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: JEFF HANNEMAN's Death 'Has Changed Everything'". Interview with Brian Aberback, www.blabbermouth.net. October 22, 2013.

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• Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.

  Feist

  Trying, Littles, Way

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• Little boys have amazing minds.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Boys, Littles, Little Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

  Phil Anselmo

  Moving, Earth, Spinning

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• Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know.  The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Smart, Organized Mind, Important

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• The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Hands, Worry

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• We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Heart, Progress

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• Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Negative Experiences

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• At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Past, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.102, Vintage

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• The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

  Georges Bataille

  Night, Awakening, Chaos

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• In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

  James Comey

  People, Evil, Germany

  "Why I Require FBI Agents to Visit the Holocaust Museum". Speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2015.

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