You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall. . . something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!
I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.
As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.
If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.
Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.
I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.
We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. "
Hitchcock had a very strange mind.
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.
If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,. . . they lose touch with their own ability to act. . . . Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like. . . But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.
As you transition from the past and future world of the mind to the awakened world of now, you will begin to experience yourself in an entirely new way. A way that is free of the pain and limitations of the past, and free of anxiety about the future. And you will begin to experience the abundance that is ever present in each moment.
People should know whatever it is you love to do. I am a living testament to the fact that you can do it. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to and you can do it in stilettos.
I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.