The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
Mind moves matter.
So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.
Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.
You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.
I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.
I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
Working out, no matter what time of the night, rejuvenates me. At times, I don't feel sleepy after a workout session, as I am all fresh and charged up, and I don't mind compromising on my sleep.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
