Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

Todd Solondz

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

Todd Rundgren

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

Sitting Bull

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Sinclair Lewis

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

Sinclair Lewis

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Rajneesh

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Rajneesh

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

Rajneesh

Mind is not your intelligence.

Rajneesh

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

Rajneesh

As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.

Rajneesh

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

Rajneesh

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

Rajneesh

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

Rajneesh

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

Rajneesh

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

Rajneesh

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

Rajneesh

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

Rajneesh

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

Rajneesh

Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing has to be done, one more step: now watch the watcher... Nothing else is left, only you are. By watching the mind, the mind disappears. By watching the witness, the witness expands and becomes universal.

Socrates

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Mercy Otis Warren

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Michael Shermer

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Michael Moriarty

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick) Oh the horror. Guess I’ll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

John P. Kotter

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

John Milton

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

Norman Douglas

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Norman Cousins

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Norm MacDonald

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

Noel Clarke

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.