Best picks & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.”

People Way Needs Mind Character Sex Picks Track One Way Over You Traits

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.”

“President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.”

Mind Two President Picks Madness Filled Israel Iran March President Obama Elsewhere Brackets Filled Out

Author:Conan O'Brien

“It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There are many variant psychic forces and powers that roam through the worlds. You can pick them up.”

World Mind Success Force Careers Buddhism Picks Focused Psychics Force And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.”

Way Giving Mind Enough Use Success Careers Creative Nice Economic Buddhism Taxes Picks Stronger Profession Economic Freedom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of our minds more closely, but it will also pick up the energy of our minds; in other words, I think that software is alive.”

Thinking Mind Science Energy Alive Computer Picks Reflection Patterns Software Computer Science

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.”

Way Mind May Made Book Running Reading Goes On Praying Picks Europe Green Track Ships Book Reading Praying To God Worth Reading

Author:Isak Dinesen

“As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.”

Ifs Knows Mind Sometimes Actors Picks Sitting Machines Cameras Who You Are Staring Rays Vacant

Author:Albert Brooks

“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.”

Ifs Way Want Mind Earth Heaven Difficult Differences Perfect Struggle Clear Worst Disease Picks Dislike Heaven And Earth

Book:Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.”

Mind Reason Facts Remember Memories Like You Picks Tunes Cherish Cherish The Memories

Author:Jennette McCurdy

“I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Play Stories Artist Interesting Picks Boring Selfish Worried Bother Ethical Interesting Stories

Author:Denzel Washington

“I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.”

People Mind Looks Littles Play Eye Rooms Dog Picks Window Ill Boxes Manners Noses Etiquette Attending Frivolous Snuff

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.”

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.”

Mind Made Picks Kitten

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.”

People Thinking Mind Age Speak Subjects Picks Old Age Relax Mask Dropping Ripe Candor Older People

Author:David McCullough

“There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.”

People Mind Stills Mother Watches Information News Intellectual Picks Foxes Open Mind Worldview Fox News Keep An Open Mind

Author:Andrew Revkin

“When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.”

Ifs Want Mind Ideas Enough Play Wanted Jobs Song Girl Found Party Saws Picks Guitar Be Good Good Enough

Author:Caleb Followill

“The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.”

Ifs Mind Picks Theater Nervous Props

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.”

Knows Want Writing Mind Lines Objects Produce Picks Discovering Not Interested Predictable

Author:Paul Simon

“In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.”

Knows Mind Mean Used Girl Speak Term Know How Picks Endearment Younger Days Terms Of Endearment

Author:Kevin Costner

“I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Important Sometimes Matter Choices Courses Actors Picks Salt Make Your Own Choices

Author:Jacki Weaver

“I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something.”

People Giving Should Trying Mind Might Sun Cutting Journey Communication Genius Cost Limits Picks Musical Noise Pursue Cups Officials Goofy Dissonance Coltrane Musicality Musical Genius

Author:Ted Nugent

“If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Wonder Worry Happened Information Amount Conversation Picks Motive Astonishing Think Of You Worry Less

Author:Pamela Druckerman

“We broke up, and my first reaction was 'Fine - I've been through this too many times. I can't change your mind. I can't live your life for you. You're gone in your direction. I'm going to pick up; I'm going to go in my direction. I'm not going to live in the past. I'm not going to embrace the pain. You go, I'll go, and that will be it.' And I felt that way for an hour and 10 minutes.”

Way Mind Firsts I Can Pain Past Felt Hours Gone Minutes Fine Picks Embrace Reactions Broke Live Your Life Can't Change Changing Your Mind Broke Up

Author:Dana Gould

“I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.”

Way Writing Mind Humans Kind Two Remember Asks Human Beings Player Information Band Musician Picks Harmony Superiors Great Things Chords Good Information

Author:Bill Bruford

“Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.”

Feels Should Mind Doe Running Faces Stuff Streets Missing Picks Manners Chips Potatoes Explaining Gracious Potato Chips Miss Manners

Author:Judith Martin

“Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.”

“In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.”

Needs Mind Kind Hands Kids Social Stuff Taught Picks Manners Shakes Subtle Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.”

People Mind Persons Seems Culture Race Higher Picks Justify Stature

Author:Rib Hillis

“Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.”

“You have to keep in mind that there's a number of logistical hurdles that they have to jump through in Europe in order to get explosives or guns. So for example, the Villejuif shooter in April 2015 who planned to attack a church: According to French press reports, he was instructed by ISIS to go to a sandwich shop, and the weapons would be waiting for him in a car parked outside. He was just told the make of the car, told to go there, told to pick them up. Putting that kind of attack together, using encrypted communications or other means, is not easy.”

“I'm trolling through the recesses of my mind for the things I did with my kids when they used to like to do things with me. They don't want to be around me now. I look back on these times - all those little funny pottery dishes that you'd pay for, and they'd paint, and they were ugly, and you glazed them, and you'd go back, pick them up, and it's like, "Oh, now I've got to put this on my desk." There's all that kind of stuff.”

Want Mind Looks Kind Littles Kids Used Stuff Pay Picks Paint Ugly Dishes Desks Of My Mind Pottery Recess

Author:Michelle Obama

“I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper correspondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Young Night Mets Picks Dinner Newspapers Hotel Staying Italian Squares One Night Moscow Harvey Pick Me Pick Me Up Kremlin Defectors

Author:Truman Capote

“It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.”

People Mind Care Enemy Trump Picks Presses Internals Strategic Coverage

Author:Mark Shields

“Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.”

Ifs Mind Saws Picks Teenager

Author:Jon Gordon

“The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.”

Mind Whole Class Support Diversity Picks Prejudice Social Justice Tendencies Representatives Casual Sample Stumble Upon

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.”

Thinking Mind Doe Book Action Wonderful Share Pages Picks Undertakings Great Minds

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”

Mind Firsts Middle Picks Caught Sentences Rhythm Clock Subconscious Strokes Lingering Gist

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

Want Mind Bears Habit Travel Picks Italian Venice Bad Habits Want Him Brideshead Revisited Good Mind

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.”