Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Howard Thurman

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Honore de Balzac

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Honore de Balzac

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Honore de Balzac

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

He boggles the mind with what he's able to do at that size.

Jack O'Neill

To be honest, I wouldn't mind one last jaunt through the old orifice.

Jack Paar

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Ivan Turgenev

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

Isak Dinesen

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Irvin D. Yalom

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.