Mindless Quotes

• A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Happiness, Loyalty

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.146, Penguin

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Innovation, Enemy, Inquiry

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• One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

  Diogenes

  Inspirational, Original Thought, Quoting

  Attributed to Diogenes of Sinope in "Let a simile be your umbrella" by William Safire (p. 364), 2001.

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• Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

  Eminem

  Ass, Brainwash

  Song: Rock Bottom, Album: The Slim Shady LP

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• Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

  Bill Griffith

  Community, Conformity, Kind

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• Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

  Anthony Daniels

  Grease, Books And Movies, Philosopher

  "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

  J. William Fulbright

  Science, Thinking, Care

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• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  Calvin Harris

  Tunes, Moments

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

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• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  Gary Lineker

  Thoughtful, Leaving, Majority

  "Gary Lineker: I won't let abusive messages drive me off Twitter" by Paul Byrne, www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2012.

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• If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

  Starhawk

  Art, Winning, Psychology

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• Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christianity, Knows

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• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  Rachel McAdams

  World, Theory, Scenery

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Learning, Love Is

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• Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Believe, Fire

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• The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.

  Ayn Rand

  Father, Men, Political

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• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Numbers, Vietnam, Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Nature, Sleep

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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• I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

  Wallace Shawn

  Children, Team, Roots

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

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• It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

  Takuan Soho

  Mind, Samurai, Way Of The Warrior

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Chance, Responsible

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

  Teju Cole

  Said

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.250, Faber & Faber

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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  Gary Gygax

  Thinking, People, Able

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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Two, People

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• Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Exercise, Ideas, Remarkable

  "Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

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