I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
There was a time not too long ago when American seniors were too often forced to go without food, medicine, and quality healthcare. But thanks to transformative programs like Social Security, most seniors in this country are provided the opportunity to live with the stability and peace of mind they have earned and deserve.
I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.
Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.
I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.
The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
Every time I work on a scene or I work on the overall movie, I had my kids unconsciously in mind. Is that going to please them? Is it going to be funny for them? And if it is funny for them, is it going to be funny for their friends and their friends' friends?
