The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.
Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit... Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
He who has a mind has thoughts and he who has thoughts has vision! Think vision. Produce vision!
Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.