Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Glazer

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Tod Machover

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Joseph Murphy

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

Joseph Murphy

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

Joseph Hall

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

Joyce Meyer

Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you.

Joyce Meyer

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

Joyce Meyer

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

Joyce Meyer

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

Joyce Meyer

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

Mary Baker Eddy

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

Mark Frost

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

Marilyn Monroe

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Nikki Reed

Once I realized that the only thing I can actually control in this life is my own mind, how I choose to react, feel, and perceive, I felt immediately liberated.

Nicole Richie

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Paul Walker

Train your mind to see the good in everything

John Piper

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

John Piper

Your mind was made to know and love God.

John Newman

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

John Muir

How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!

John Wesley

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

John Robert Seeley

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Steinbeck

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

John Simon

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

John Shirley

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

John Singer Sargent

Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.

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.