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Mind Quotes
"Thoughts are the product of a machine we call the human mind. So manufacture some excellent thoughts."
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
"The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks."
"But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story."
Mind,
"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind."
"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
Mind,
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind,
"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."
Mind,
"If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind."
Mind,
"I use my mind to solve problems and invent things."
"The mind is a beautiful servant but a dangerous master."
"If you are not aware, you will not be aware of your lack of awareness."
"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
"Thoughts are a product manufactured by the relentless effort of the machine we call a mind."
"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."
"Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth."
Mind,
"I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something."
"I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that."
"I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."
"It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about."
"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof."
"I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened."
"The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones."
Mind,
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