Mind Quotes

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

~ Allen Ginsberg

I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

~ Alice Oswald

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

~ James Laughlin

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

~ Steven Pinker

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

~ Edward Hirsch

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

~ Andrew Motion

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

~ Laura Riding

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

~ Bodhidharma

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

~ Dalai Lama

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

~ Marianne Williamson

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

~ John Dryden

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

~ David Lynch

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

~ Seth Meyers

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

~ Matt Mcgorry

A feeble body weakens the mind.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

~ Martina Hingis

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

~ Stone Gossard

I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.

~ Richard C. Armitage

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

~ Elon Musk

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

~ Timothy Leary

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

~ Winston Churchill

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

~ Rush Limbaugh

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

~ Bob Dylan

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

~ Maya Angelou

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

~ William S. Burroughs

If you never change your mind, why have one?

~ Edward De Bono

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

~ Natalie Portman

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

~ Kurt Masur

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

~ Jonathan Kozol

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

~ Miriam Makeba

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

~ Jay Kay

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.

~ Niall Horan

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo