Mind Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

Often in the casual remarks of great men one learns their true mind in an intimate way.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Every mind is at least as heavy as mine.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They're always at the back of your mind. They're what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what.

The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.