Top 1200 Closed Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

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

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

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.

I don't see why people are so concerned at what other people do behind closed doors or in their lives.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

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

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

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.

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.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

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

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

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

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

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

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.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.

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.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

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.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

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

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

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

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

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

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

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

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.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

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

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly