It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
Every woman who has been pregnant knows that it messes with your mind a little bit. You are suddenly someone else: you are a mother who is now responsible for another human being. That's awesome, but it changes who you are.
Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively.
Music is the medicine of the mind.
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing his own campaign. That's very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
While classrooms will be in use for many years to come, their value will diminish quickly as the online options become more pervasive. Many of the physical classrooms will be converted to eLearning laboratories, some to research centers. The real classroom of the future will take place inside the mind of the student, wherever they happen to be.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
