I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week. People want to look fat. Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation.
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
I write with teenagers in mind.
Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.
I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.
The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.
When I sit down to write a scene, I have a plan in mind, and I'm thrilled when a character disregards my goals and takes the story to a place I hadn't imagined.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are.
We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.
I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other.
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.
Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.
I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
