Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothea Lange

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

Donna Summer

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

Donna Mills

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Donnie Wahlberg

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

Dale Carnegie

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Dale Carnegie

Fill your mind with thoughts of PEACE, COURAGE, HEALTH and HOPE

Constantin Brancusi

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

Cynthia Heimel

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

Clive James

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

Dylan Moran

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

e. e. cummings

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

E. B. White

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.

E. B. White

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

Dustin Moskovitz

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Dustin Hoffman

This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

Douglas Coupland

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Donald Trump

Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but they don't. They waste the money.

Donald Trump

I don't mind releasing - I'm under a routine audit. And it'll be released.

Andrew Carnegie

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

Andrea Tantaros

The Iranians are not going to cede any kind of power. They're not going to cede any kind of control. [Hassan] Rouhani used to be the nuclear negotiator. Any YouTube saying this is our mission to become nuclear. He's not going to change his mind.

Amos Lee

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Anthony Daniels

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Anthony de Mello

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

Anthony de Mello

Problems exist only in the human mind.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Alvar Aalto

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

Alma Guillermoprieto

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Anne Sexton

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Anne Rice

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

Anne Rice

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Anne Rice

Let the flesh instruct the mind.