Mind Quotes - Page 34

• Frozen by fear. Not able to move. Your mind screaming

  James Dashner

  Moving, Frozen, Able

  James Dashner, Brandon Dorman (2011). “The Blade of Shattered Hope”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Heart, Fire, Imagination

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

  Jules Verne

  Character, Past, Doubt

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.

  Joe Nichols

  Real, Different, Pace

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• As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Soul

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we live in the mind, we will only try to separate one religion from another and see how their ideologies differ. It is the heart that can have a true intuitive understanding of the height and breadth of all religions. It is the heart that sees and feels the inner harmony and oneness of all religions.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Essence, Oneness

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.297, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Attachment, Next Day

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• Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

  Mario Testino

  Giving, Photograph, Smiley

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• The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Latin, Struggle, Hands

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• I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, its a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

  Nikki Sixx

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.

  Penelope Lively

  Want, Sparks, Comets

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Perceive, Feigning, Greater

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• After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Real, Discovery, Usual

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “How to Improve Your Mind”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

  Lynn Nottage

  Play, Shrinking, Economics

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Expression, Movement, Purity

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

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• And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

  George Sand

  Sacrifice, Earth, Pleasure

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• What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Sleep, Divorce

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Illustration, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

  Lenny Bruce

  Dirty, Dirty Minds, Dirty Words

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• Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

  Daniel Goldstein

  Productive Life, Good Relationship, People

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• I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

  Michael Shanks

  Character, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

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• Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Art, Medicine, Community

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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