Mind Quotes - Page 39

• Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.

  Agnes Denes

  Keys, Numbers, Purpose

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• The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

  Thomas More

  Country, Children, Men

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.121, Bibliolis Books

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• For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

  Tony Buzan

  Memories, Oxygen, Healthy

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• You people are out of your minds. Clemsons Walker Course is not only one of the nicest courses in the Southeast, its one of the nicest collegiate courses in the country. The Tiger Paw 17th hole is amazing!

  Mark Richards

  Country, People, Clemson

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• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  Zak Orth

  School, People, Doe

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• If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

  Bodhidharma

  Land, Pure, Ifs

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.89, Macmillan

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• The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

  Bodhidharma

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.

  Storm Constantine

  Dream, People, Shadow

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• I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Long, Evil, Purpose

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London”, p.2

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• On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

  George Will

  Leader, World, Want

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• I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sex, Men, Flight

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Collected Short Stories”, p.318, Random House

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• Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.

  Fay Wray

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Special, Shirts

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• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  Christopher Wren

  Men, Foundation, Void

  James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100

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• To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mathematics, Invention, Barren

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• I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

  Martin Rees

  Thinking, Orbit, Noses

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• Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

  Johannes Kepler

  Eye, Men, History

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• If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Lingerie, States

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• The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Issues, Body

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• So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.

  Betty White

  Writing, Play, Laughing

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• A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Ideas, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.

  Richard Lewontin

  Jobs, Way, Scientist

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

  Chris Brown

  Song, Ideas, Creative

  "Just Jared" Interview, www2.justjared.com. September 4, 2008.

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• I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"

  Steve Zahn

  Thinking, Talking, Want

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• I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.

  Anton Newcombe

  House, Flying, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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