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“We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.”

Needs Mind Hands Prayer Raises Setting Settings Wander Irrelevant Raise Up Wandering Thoughts

Author:John Calvin

“Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.”

Mind Hands Dies Slavery Chains Dens

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.”

Writing Mind Mean Book Ideas Ends Hands Jobs Process Fashion Active Focused Smallest Definite Linear

Author:Terry Pratchett

“You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.”

“A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.”

Thinking Should Mind War Hands Weapons Fighter Warrior

Book:The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

Source: The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

“Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.”

Mind Looks Hands Monsters Corporations Nuts Cheeseburger

Author:Max Barry

“Tis the mind must guide the hand.”

Mind Hands Guides

Book:Mother Stories

Source: Mother Stories

“One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.”

“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.”

Mind Firsts Hands Company Position Products Computer Ibm Upper Hand

Author:Al Ries

“I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.”

Mind Hands Sea Rivers Casts Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Shaking

Author:Ed Zern

“We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.”

Mind States Hands Flower Masters Like You Enlightened State Of Mind Lamps Transfers Transmission Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent artist means being hands on with your career in every aspect - not being afraid to spend your own money and invest time in yourself. Although I'm affiliated with a major label, I still wake up every day with an independent mindset.”

People Mind Mean Stills States Hands Artist Careers Majors Aspect Wake Up Independent Mindset Labels Being Afraid

Author:Yo Gotti

“A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.”

Mind Hands Age Joy Mother Father

Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]”

Mind Hands Success Hopeful Animus

Author:Plautus

“Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”

Men Mind Hands Form All Things Instruments

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.”

Mind Humans Ends Sometimes Hands School Law Women Voice Masters Proud Succeed Equal Harmony Crowds Appreciation Manners Gentle Reeds Somber Cedars

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.”

People Mind Soul Hands Growth Secret Quality Written Critics Heavy Explanation Monstrous Biographers

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Hands Lasts Beautiful Father Saws Week Mines Six Died Train Stations Last Time Firsts And Lasts Entwined Train Stations

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.”

Mind Use Hands Force Skills Computer Creating Everyday Dull Everyday Life

Author:Clifford Stoll

“It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?”

Mind Matter Hands Black Water Sin Virtue Capable Monsters Cathy

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.”

Thinking Writing Mind Hands Able Left Dues Complaining Engaged Of My Mind Personal Relationships Left Hand

Author:Rebecca West

“Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.”

People Ifs Want Mind May Mean Hands Religion Stones Weak Sight Idols Far Away

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

“Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.”

“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.”

Way Mind I Can Hands Remember Form Artist Fashion Determined Mixtures Marble My Future Foresight Sculptors

Author:Freya Stark

“We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.”

Ifs Knows Mind Believe Hands Reality Universe Knowledge

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.”

Men Mind Hands Sun Dispassionate

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.”

Thinking Way Want Mind Children Sometimes Hands Eye Games Intelligent Our Children Your Children Coordination Supple Lateral Thinking

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Hands Wind Decades Passing Passings Sci Fi Storyteller Imaginative

Author:Brian Greene