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“I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.”

Mind Sometimes Hours Cities Passing Passings Passing Through

Author:Will Oldham

“I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.”

Ifs Giving Mind Sometimes Might Wanted Materials Importance Crucial Penalties

Author:Alan Lewis

“The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.”

People Thinking Mind Important Sometimes States Certain Dark Walks Rooms Worry Movement Amount Sitting Fighter State Of Mind Locked Boxers Locked Up Dark Room

Author:Emanuel Steward

“I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.”

Mind Persons Sometimes Speak Militant Provocation

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.”

Ifs Mind Different Sometimes States Wisdom Powerful Buddhism Draws Eternity State Of Mind Very Powerful Different Directions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.”

Mind Sometimes Audience Open Mind Vacant

Author:Todd Solondz

“I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.”

Thinking Mind Wells Sometimes Sides Creative Negative Connotation

Author:Alexander Wang

“I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.”

Mind Ideas Sometimes Body Active Exhausted

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.”

World Want Years Mind Sometimes Hard Forever Fool Hero Over You Up And Down Knights Hard Things Being Myself

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“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

“[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.”

Mind Sometimes Wealth Fire Subjects Madness Calm Passionate Intellect Ran Lightning Threatening Dazzling Volcanoes

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Stage Scene Approach Shooting Lazy Somewhere Else Coverage Slipping Movie Making Slipping Away

Author:Jamie Bell

“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.”

Years Mind I Can Ideas Sometimes Remember Memories Pieces Written Havens Paper Six Years Ago Down And Blue Muscles Chords Muscle Memory

Author:Ryan Adams

“Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.”

Mind Sometimes Whole Dream Style Possibility Objects Bears Good Things Regions Really Great Breadth

Author:Paul Klee

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Want Mind Ends Sometimes Painting Twenties Paint Starting Things To Do Fifteen Finishing

Book:Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

“I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.”

Thinking Mind Mean Sometimes Hard Done Problem Situation Clear Plans Strategy Starting Solve Again And Again Starting Over Whatever It Takes Scraping Starting Over Again

Author:Richard Schmid

“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.”

Mind Sometimes Science Notes Stores Experiments Data Gross Collectors Forts Enquiry Unexplained Macabre

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”

Ifs Want Love Mind Heart Persons Sometimes Stories Easy Space Effort Magic Illusion Bother Pins

Author:Javan

“The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be sensitive to that. Without being flaky and devotional, develop respect for the teacher, just as the teacher respects you.”

Mind Sometimes States Moving Teacher Sensitive Enlightened State Of Mind Devotional

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.”

People Mind Sometimes States Age Youth Ordinary State Of Mind Exceptional Ordinary People

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.”

Thinking Inspirational Mind Sometimes Suffering Universe Consciousness Known Creative Movement Wind Evolution Conscious Boundaries Unconscious Quantum Sail Monkeys Processing Monkey Mind

Author:Amit Goswami

“If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind Sometimes Use Seeing Aids Opening Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts.”

Mind Heart Sometimes Order Offending

Author:John Wimber

“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.”

Ifs World Way Giving Mind Wells Children Made Sometimes Sex Water Poor Struggle Habit Walking Elements Independent Males Dare Beloved Thrown Adam Trust Me Wrecks Infancy Beloved Friends

Author:Frances Wright

“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”

People Ifs Want Writing Mind Different Sometimes Helping Actors Voice Different Voices

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Ideas Sometimes Hurt Havens Normal Tired Hurt Me Wrong Ideas

Author:Craig Nicholls

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.”

Mind Book Sometimes Seems Age Action Politics Periods Speech Senses Reaching Persuasion Gross Moderates Demonstration Discarded Stimulation Disruptive

Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.”

Knows Giving Mind May Sometimes Lessons Lifetime Corruption Agents Ease Mask Hook Lesson Learned High Places

Author:Carlos P. Romulo

“Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.”

Ifs Years Mind Children Soul Sometimes Left Heaven Vision Hell Quiet Driving Selling Shooting Roaming Refreshments Peace And Quiet Peddling

Book:Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children

Source: Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children

“I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Reason Care Knowing Atheism Evidence Scientist Passionate I Care Cant Impatient Charlatans Humbug

Author:Richard Dawkins

“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.”

People Mind Firsts Believe May Mean Sometimes Used Goal Results Study Revolution Program Method Careful Objectives Motive Characteristics Consideration Historic Changing Your Mind

Author:Malcolm X

“Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.”

Mind May Stills Sometimes Done Action Bent Worms Traveller Goeth

Book:The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue

Source: The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue

“Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.”

Mind Sometimes Silence Noble Significant Occasions Sublime Silence Is Eloquence Indication Expressive Great Minds

Book:Tatler and Guardian

Source: Tatler and Guardian

“Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.”

Men Mind Wells May Made Sometimes Body Together Found Differences Equal Benefits Claims Stronger Faculty One Man Mind And Body Leviathan

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.”

Knows World Should Mind Wells Heart I Can War Sometimes Reason Order Strategy Unions Partners War Of The Worlds Agreement Heart And Mind Exit Acts Of Love Second Marriage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.”

People Mind Wells Sometimes Sports Loses Goes On Pressure Insane Fighter Boxing Bottles Make Out Skid Row

Author:Mike Tyson

“In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.”

Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

“The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.”

Knows Mind Art Self Sometimes Attitude Capable Assuming Contrary Experts Officials Aggressive Academic Defence Self Defence

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?”

Source: Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On

“Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”

Mind Two Sometimes Enough Evil Broken Carnage Two Minds

Book:The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

Source: The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts Believe Persons Sometimes Action I Believe Differences Too Much Danger Periods Bravery Courageous Coward Frightened Fearful Cowardice Peril Cowardly Branded

Author:Gene Wolfe

“Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.”

Way Mind Wells Sometimes States Teaching Conclusion Observation State Of Mind Premises Novices

Author:Erik Naggum

“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.”

“Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.”

World Mind May Sometimes Dies Growing Up Growing Doors Modern Strange Bed Miracle Rose Passive Nurture Modern World Open Mind Precious Gifts Bed Of Roses

Author:Tim Lebbon

“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”