Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Jackson

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

LeBron James

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

Laurie R. King

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Lance Armstrong

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

Laini Taylor

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

Lisa See

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Lisa Loeb

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

Lisa Kleypas

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

John Turner

The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

John Travolta

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

John Stuart Mill

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

John Stuart Mill

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

John Stuart Mill

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Lee Burke

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

James Joseph Sylvester

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

John Searle

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

John Searle

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

John Scalzi

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Piper

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Mark Teixeira

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

Mark Noll

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

Mark Pagel

[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Nicole Kidman

I don't mind being naked.

Nick Harkaway

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!

Nick Kroll

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Nalo Hopkinson

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Mortimer Adler

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Mischa Barton

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

Philip Sidney

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Philip Sidney

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.