Mind Quotes

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

~ William Wordsworth

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

~ Alicia Machado

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

~ John O'donohue

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

~ George Gissing

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

~ Yusef Lateef

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

~ Laurence J. Peter

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

~ Jack Benny

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

~ Agyness Deyn

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

~ Ron White

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

~ Jamie Dornan

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

~ Steven Wright

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

~ Kevin Hart

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

~ Napoleon Hill

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

~ Jack Youngblood

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

~ George Berkeley

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

~ Taylor Swift

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

~ Keith Barry

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

~ Brit Marling

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

~ John Desmond Bernal

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

~ Rod Serling

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

~ Orlando Bloom

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

~ Michio Kaku

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

~ J. G. Ballard

Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.

~ Lindsey Stirling

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

~ Scott Bakula

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

~ Quintilian

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

~ Wallace Stevens

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

~ Robinson Jeffers

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

~ George Lois

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

~ William Shakespeare

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

~ James Turrell