Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Jesse Eisenberg

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

Jesse Eisenberg

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

Jenny Lawson

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

Jenny Holzer

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

Jenny Holzer

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Jenny Holzer

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

Jenna Elfman

AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

Gilbert Ryle

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.

Gilda Radner

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Harry Shearer

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

Frank Herbert

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Frank Herbert

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Frank Herbert

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Frank Herbert

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Frank Herbert

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Guru Nanak

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

Jim Butcher

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

H. G. Wells

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

Jean de la Bruyere

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Jean Anouilh

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

King Albert II

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Myles Munroe

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

Milton Berle

I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

Milton Berle

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

Milton Friedman

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.