State Of Mind Quotes - Page 18

• My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

  Carolyn Warner

  Winning, Mind, Definitions

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• It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Mind, Quality

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Differences, Mind

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• Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.

  Behdad Sami

  Real, Mind, Failing

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2014

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• Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Effort, Mind, Excess

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• Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Mind, Quality

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• If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, People, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

  Gerry Spence

  Perfect, Mind, Slavery

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.149, Macmillan

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• [T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Race

  Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, R. B. Freeman (1990). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.275, NYU Press

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• Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Reality, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Successful, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Colin Campbell, www.macleans.ca. October 5, 2011.

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• Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Mind, Problem

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• The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

  Ella Maillart

  Mind, Literature, States

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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• When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

  Michael Light

  Clock Is Ticking, Mind, Pilots

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think Hollywood is more of a state of mind then a place. There are certainly iconic locations in L.A. but as far as the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood and the studio system, that's all but faded away.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Thinking, Mind, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

  Gal Gadot

  Character, Play, Shining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence.

  Michael Douglas

  Kids, Weekend, Vegas

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• I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Mind, Wonder

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• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Punishment, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Block, Buddhism

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• The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Ego, Mind

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

  Ivan Illich

  Country, Goal, Mind

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• The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Gita, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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