Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julianne Hough

I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.

Juan Gris

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

Joshua Prager

What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Joshua Reynolds

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Joshua Reynolds

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Joshua Reynolds

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Joseph Conrad

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

Joshua Homme

I don't mind saying what's on my mind.

Kate Millett

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

Kate Morton

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Lauren Beukes

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

John Keats

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

John Keats

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

John Charles Polanyi

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Lisa Kleypas

I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.

Lisa Gansky

Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.

Lisa Bonet

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

Lilith Saintcrow

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

Leo Tolstoy

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

Livy

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Lynda Barry

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

Louise Rennison

I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.

Louise Rennison

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

Louis D. Brandeis

If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

Lori Greiner

You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

Lord Byron

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Lord Byron

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Loren Eiseley

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

Lord Chesterfield

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

Lord Chesterfield

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Malcolm Gladwell

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Malcolm Gladwell

Change your mind about something significant every day.