Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.
