Famous Quotes & Sayings

Os Guinness

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Om Puri

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Oliver Stone

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Octavia Spencer

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

Octavia Spencer

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

Octavia Butler

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Norman Vincent Peale

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Norman Vincent Peale

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Emile M. Cioran

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Emile M. Cioran

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Emile M. Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Emile M. Cioran

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Emile M. Cioran

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.

Ellen Glasgow

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Ellen G. White

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Eric Schmidt

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Epictetus

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Epicurus

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Epictetus

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Epictetus

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Epictetus

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Epictetus

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

Emily Carr

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers' ...

Emily Bronte

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

Alan Arkin

I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

Albert J. Nock

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Stanley Baldwin

Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do?

It's uncomfortable. I don't mind supervision, but that was too far.