Top 1200 Blank Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

The mild creaminess of cottage cheese makes it a perfect blank canvas for almost any flavor combination, savory or sweet. Since it's so soft, I usually try to give it some textural contrast in the form of something crunchy. Brightening it up with acid is also a must.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

Sometimes the best experiences are when I know nothing about this movie: I've never met the director, and I come and see something and I'm blank, because then it's coming at you in a way it would never come at you if you'd read the script, with an expectation.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.

The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.

Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.