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“When the mind is most empty It is most full.”

Mind Empty

Book:Granite Lady: Poems

Source: Granite Lady: Poems

“One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.”

Mind Enough Never Quit

Book:What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim

Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim

“Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.”

Mind Calm Excited Invention Execution

Author:Johann Peter Eckermann

“How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so others will take notice of your art? When I was first trying to get noticed, all of these questions went through my mind. After a lot of trial of error and a lot of reading, I began to understand the world of public relations.”

World Trying Mind Firsts Art Reading Tvs Relation Errors Newspapers Trials Locals Magazines Public Relations

Author:Mark Edward

“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.”

Thinking Trying Mind Humans Animal Study Personality Human Personality

Author:Sara Gruen

“I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.”

“Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.”

Mind Kind May Book Voice Library Library Books

Author:Laurel Lea

“Guilt is the mafia of the mind.”

Mind Psychology Guilt Mafia

Book:Open Heart Therapy

Source: Open Heart Therapy

“Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.”

Ifs Men Mind Language Tongue Living Things

Author:Charlton Laird

“To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

Thinking Mind Long Helping Difficult Majority Medicine Arguing Something New Sugar

Author:Jason Gann

“Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.”

People Knows Want Mind Wells Know How Source Bob Watergate

Author:Edward Klein

“I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.”

Mind Someday Soundtracks

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.”

World Want Mind Helping Sound Mind Free

Author:Victoria Legrand

“My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.”

Ifs Way Mind Stills Running Angry Fabric Wrong Way Spelling

Author:William Ivey Long

“It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.”

People Giving Mind Ideas Feelings Able Song Fun Views Produce Crowds Point Of View Translate Vocal Of My Mind Fruition

Author:Rico Love

“I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.”

People Trying Mind Stories Might Trouble

Author:Bruce Nash

“The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.”

“You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Worry Caught Mess Caught Up

Author:Yul Vazquez

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

Mind Jobs Work Business Self Improvement Paid Philosophical Entrepreneur Businessman Degradation Degrade Funny Business Funny Work

Author:Aristotle

“When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.”

Mind Food Consistently Pondering

Author:Ogden Nash

“Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.”

Ifs Men Mind Humans God Waiting Human Beings Conditions Asking Virtuous

Author:Edward John Carnell

“We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.”

Mind May Work Pay Method Scar

Author:Rebecca McCann

“The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.”

Mind Persons Actors Deals Acting Essence Mediums

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Believe I Can Hands Father Heaven Stars Space Darkness Sun Sky Atheism Dog All Things Lonely Shining Positive Atheism Dust Fixed Hung Unbelief Lonely World

Author:Gerald Kersh

“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.”

Thinking Mind Humans Evil Easy Race Moral Issues Essentials Disappear Cease Opposition Dissent Invigorating Moral Issues Honing

Author:Jill Tweedie

“I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.”

Mind Wells Persons Said Happiness Compensation Obese

Author:Pierre Dukan

“The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.”

Mind Mean Bigs Differences Crazy Size Productions Shooting Crew Flexibility

Author:Bille August

“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Stills Important Hard Games Know How Baseball Important Things Get Better Cracks Of My Mind Bad Games

Author:Brady Anderson

“In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.”

Mind Ends Notes Pigs Stout High Notes

Author:Dave Schulthise

“I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.”

Mind Bores Good Mind

Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.”

Should Mind Important Ends Decision Creativity Technology Policy Happenings Privacy Discouraged Files Copyright Making Decisions Collision Be Encouraged

Author:Edward Felten

“With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.”

Feels Mind Persons Character Feelings Able Film Actors Honest Strange Easier Being Honest Where You Are Strange Things

Author:Marketa Irglova

“Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.”

Mind Kind Sometimes Guy Felt Goal Caught Caught Up Other Guys

Author:Cory Lidle

“As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.”

Mind Children Play Wanted Actors Doctors Profession Lawyer Flight Flight Attendant

Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.”

Mind War Interest Written Economic Policy Intention Analysis Entitled Introduction Textbooks Oxford

Author:James Meade

“I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.”

Want Mind Firsts Play Enjoy Decision Team Circumstances Findings Consideration Joining Starters

Author:Chan Ho Park

“When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.”

Mind Reading Pages Mind Reading

Author:Guy Picciotto

“I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.”

People Thinking Way Mind Humans Joy Choices Animal Struggle Regret Navigate Human Animal

Author:Victor Salva

“The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life.”

Mind Infinite Subconscious Subconscious Mind Place In Life Infinite Intelligence Power Subconscious Mind

Book:Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Source: Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.”

Mind Body Environment Your Body Subconscious Reap Subconscious Mind Power Subconscious Mind

Book:The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.”

Mind Adventure Regard Cynicism Excursions

Author:H. L. Mencken

“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.”

Thinking Mind Persons Faces Beauty Moral Expression Depends Features Accustomed True Beauty

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.”

Mind Doe Darkness Prosperity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Speech is the index of the mind.”

Mind Speech

Author:Seneca the Younger

“In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.”

Men Needs Mind Grows Growth Circles Contracts

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.”

Mind Body Meditation Responsible Your Body Mind Thoughts

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?”

Mind Ideas Philosophy Together Concepts Philosophical

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.”

Mind Book States Seems Belief Understanding Church Religious Understood Sacred Priests

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

“But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.”

Trying Mind Today Time Tomorrow Bounds Yesterday Yardsticks Today And Tomorrow

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

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