There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.
I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.
Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Is there no way out of the mind?
I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.
