From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.
Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.
On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new
I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing that comes to mind. That's a nice memory.
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.
You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
