Quotes of: Public-mind Keyword

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about t...

A Single Man

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what ...

Philip Pullman

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, diss...

Kealan Patrick Burke

The most important thing you can do in a relationship is sit down and talk to each other, not with the TV on, or at the cinema, or over a meal, but just you and the other person where you can truly be heard and truly listen to each other

100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind and How to Develop Your Mind to Change Your Life

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart a...

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough ...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

The Gods Themselves

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Cloud Atlas

I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.

Carine Roitfeld

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

Anthony Holden

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as s...

Richard Dawkins

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Los estadounidenses ya no hablan entre sí, sino que se entretienen recíprocamente. No intercambian ideas, sino imágenes.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

Professional writers write to fit

From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere