Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Helen Frankenthaler

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

Helen Fisher

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Henepola Gunaratana

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Henepola Gunaratana

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Hector Berlioz

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

Henry David Thoreau

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

Henry Ford

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

Manly Hall

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Man Ray

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

Mandy Moore

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Morley Safer

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Morihei Ueshiba

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

Morihei Ueshiba

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

Morgan Freeman

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Morgan Brittany

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Mike Love

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

Marcel Proust

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Joseph Addison

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Kevin Brooks

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

M. Russell Ballard

We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

John Bevere

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

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.