To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
~ Irving R. Kaufman
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
~ Sidney Crosby
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
~ René Descartes
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
~ Bill Ayers
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
~ Evelyn Glennie
So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
~ Bill Sienkiewicz
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.
~ Cuba Gooding
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
~ Louise L. Hay
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
~ Marilyn French
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
~ Alan Moore
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
~ George Orwell
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
~ Ruth Buzzi
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
~ E. Stanley Jones
In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
~ Pico Iyer
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
~ Michael Chabon
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~ Ansel Adams
In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.
~ Robert J. Fisher
Entrepreneurs spend an inordinate amount of time inside of our own heads - thinking, analyzing, agonizing and obsessing over every little detail of our business. Sometimes, we need a break from ourselves. Meditation is a chance to let the thinking mind rest.
~ Lewis Howes
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
~ Christina Aguilera
In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.
~ Merce Cunningham
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
~ W. G. Sebald
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I'm thankful for that.
~ Floyd Mayweather
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
~ Saint Teresa Of Avila
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
~ Aeschylus
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
~ George Berkeley
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
~ Jupiter Hammon
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
~ James A. Forbes
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
~ John Locke
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~ Plato
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
~ Archibald Hill
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
~ Maria Mitchell
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
~ George Boole
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
~ William Ellery Channing
Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.
~ Peter Lombard
