There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.
I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.
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