Mindless Quotes

• A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Happiness, Loyalty

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.146, Penguin

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Innovation, Enemy, Inquiry

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• Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

  Eminem

  Ass, Brainwash

  Song: Rock Bottom, Album: The Slim Shady LP

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• One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

  Diogenes

  Inspirational, Original Thought, Quoting

  Attributed to Diogenes of Sinope in "Let a simile be your umbrella" by William Safire (p. 364), 2001.

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• Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

  Bill Griffith

  Community, Conformity, Kind

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• Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

  Anthony Daniels

  Grease, Books And Movies, Philosopher

  "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

  J. William Fulbright

  Science, Thinking, Care

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• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  Calvin Harris

  Tunes, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  Gary Lineker

  Thoughtful, Leaving, Majority

  "Gary Lineker: I won't let abusive messages drive me off Twitter" by Paul Byrne, www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2012.

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• If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

  Starhawk

  Art, Winning, Psychology

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• Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christianity, Knows

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• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  Rachel McAdams

  World, Theory, Scenery

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Numbers, Vietnam, Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

  Wallace Shawn

  Children, Team, Roots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Learning, Love Is

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• I think its very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - its just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

  David Suchet

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

  Teju Cole

  Said

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.250, Faber & Faber

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• You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

  Paul Farmer

  Competition, Want, Resources

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Party, Gossip, Conversation

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• You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Character, Special

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• Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

  Roger Penrose

  Understanding, Deals, Computation

  Roger Penrose (1994). “Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Keys, Justice

  "Scorn not the Sonnet" l. 1 (1827)

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Acceptance, Math, Night

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

  Fred Durst

  Movie, Children, Years

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