The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.
I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!
Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.
But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America. . . In the United States. . . Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.
I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.
My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.
Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.
The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.
What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.
A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long. . . These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.