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“Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.”

Men Mind Spirit Names Greater Lifetime Reputation Immortality Breadth Leonardo Regal

Book:Lives of the Artists

Source: Lives of the Artists

“What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.”

Way Mind Doe Care Known Diminish

Author:David Whyte

“Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.”

Mind Different Reason Artist Speak Prejudice Habitual Filters Cloudy

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.”

World Needs Mind Results Clear Health Heal Healed Katie Clear Minds

Book:A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are

Source: A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are

“The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.”

World Mind Perfect Perfection Obvious Katie Clear Minds

Author:Byron Katie

“It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.”

Mind Matter Powerful Grew Circumstances Grew Up Determination

Author:Bob Proctor

“Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.”

Mind Desire Known Mankind Objects Species Rate Various Pursue Variety Shade Objects Of Desire

Author:William Gifford

“When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.”

Thinking Mind Team Spring Great Team Python

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.”

Trying Mind Ability Results Weak Profanity Weak Minds

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.”

Mind Stills Problem Masters Robots Absent

Author:Barry Long

“They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee.”

Mind Said Hell Week Mark Bottom Size Suits Call Me Pants Plates Bloody They Said Jackets Marquee

Author:Ricky Hatton

“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.”

Thinking Mind Believe Persons Matter Certain Humanity Opinion Principles Particular Caught Being True Caught Up Precarious Relationships With Others

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”

Mind Art Earth Stupid Revolutionary Renewal Stale

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”

Mind Stills Sound Pay Attention Silence Opening Pay Attention Opening Up Portal Silence Is Golden

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.”

Mind Soul Body Beauty Sun Grace Air Divine Female Shining Gentle Charm Female Beauty Male Beauty

Author:Neil Young

“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”

Mind Self Done Moments Awareness Criticism Self Awareness Unbearable Self Criticism

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Isnt it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youre with some other ones Its stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!”

People Thinking Feels Mind Stills Strange Tired Stranger Brown Thick Firefly

Author:Rachel Field

“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Thinking Mind Littles Soul Body Spirit Imagination Sleep Little Things Closed Mind

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.”

People Mind Believe Past Change Opinion

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

Mind Process Simple Investing Banking Bankers Monetary New World Order Federal Reserve Monetary System Bankers And Banks Banks And Money

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.”

Mind Inspiration Realizing Clouded

Book:Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973

Source: Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973

“What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.”

Thinking Needs Mind Firsts Perception Hospitals Nests Flew Need A Change Cuckoos Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Author:Deborah Norville

“You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.”

Knows Mind Ideas Interesting

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?”

Mind Looks Said Country Guy Opportunity Sides Hours Saws Selling Dirt Glances That Guy Tennessee Great Country

Author:Bill Hicks

“Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.”

Men Mind Rich Intellect Thorns Thistles

Author:Teresa of Avila

“You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.”

Mind Play Loses Ability Scene Right Place

Author:Genie Francis

“If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mind Understanding Creative Appreciate And Love Irrational Unpredictable Dna Creative People

Author:Bernard Arnault

“I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.”

People Thinking Mind I Can Red Uniforms Accents Costumes Silhouettes Engraved Make Me Smile Geisha Flaunting Kimonos

Author:Colleen Atwood

“It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.”

Thinking Mind Real Seems Stuff Tragedy

Author:Gregg Allman

“Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.”

Mind Ultimate Reputation Broads Historian Indulgence Synthesis Generalization Specialization

Book:By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses

Source: By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses

“My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?”

Ifs Writing Mind Book Turns Next Pleasure

Author:Yann Martel

“Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.”

Mind Audience Economy Subjects Blessing Economics Ears Response Ill Boredom Topics Cliche

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.”

Mind Feelings Choices Difficult Growth Situation Husband Picks Okay Angry Miserable Abundance Tunes Insecurity Scarcity Your Husband Difficult Situations

Author:Susan Jeffers

“Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Writing Trying Mind Heart Has Beens Ideas Reality Able Language Ties Receiving Divorced Contradictory

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.”

Mind Hard Work Hard Work Lifetime Humble

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

Ifs Mind Dies Language Pieces Thousand Torture Nightmare Nerves Orchestra Corpses Symbolic

Author:Asger Jorn

“What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.”

Mind Enough Dangerous Danger Please

Author:Kazuaki Tanahashi

“My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.”

Way Mind Moments Masters Bird My Way Traps Canvas Pins Methodology

Author:Joan Miro

“The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.”

Mind Kind Doe Seems Eye Desire Speak Fire Lips Cheeks Modest Cupid Blushing

Author:James Harrington

“And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.”

Mind Fall Study

Author:Alexander Barclay

“When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.”

Way Want Mind Achieve What You Want

Author:Jane Harman

“He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.”

Mind Lying Sin Guilt Heavy Commit

Author:Thomas Creech

“Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.”

World Mind Real Stories Eye Evil Winning Fantasy Journey Hero Victory Higher Battle Train Obedience Upset Visible Submit Testament Unseen New Testament Higher Power Can't Win Fantasy Stories

Author:Bryan Davis

“Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!”

Mind Looks Hours Behinds Bears Labor Agriculture Spares

Author:Richard Henry Horne

“Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.”

Feels Mind Names Lord Hunger

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves - and to others - to keep on growing.”

Mind Ideas Growth Responsibility Growing Bother

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”

Mind Imagination Situation Circumstances Creatures Illusion Senses Impression Good Friend Servility

Book:The wild Irish girl: a national tale

Source: The wild Irish girl: a national tale

“There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security”

People Needs Should Mind May Facts Growth Security Bears Welfare Impediments

Author:Romano Prodi

“We can change the brain by changing the mind.”

Mind Change Brain

Author:Richard Davidson

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