I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Let's start with what we can be thankful for & get our mind into that vibration and then watch the good that starts to come because one thought leads to another
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.
Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.
While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
When you truly love a person, problems and heartaches are normal because even if the mind gets angry the heart still cares.
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.