Top 1200 Blank Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the squawking ducks in a pond. The mind is not meant to be spoken. The mind is mostly waves of thoughts and sensations from many sources. The mind is meant to know the truth. Know your own mind and use it to speak the truth.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

I brought my personality to HQ. I injected my DNA into this thing. They gave me a blank slate to work with.

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I like '1989,' the whole album. 'Welcome to New York,' 'Blank Space,' 'Bad Blood' - all of it!

Creative process gives me the most freedom because I can do anything I want on a piece of blank media.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.

The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community.

The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

I am but a blank canvas, because everyone interprets you in a different way, and I think that's quite nice.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.