Top 1200 Creative Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I do seem to work in a lot of different mediums, which means it keeps things fresh and sparks interest in me. Fame and fortune is fairly irrelevant to me. It's nice because it gives creative freedom. But just wanting to be famous is ridiculous because it's so vacuous. So, I get offered lots of different things and if they spark my interest, I'll try and do them because they form part of a wider creative circle.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

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

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 had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I played. People started recognizing my name and face and it helped sell bigger venues. I had a bigger spotlight and I had to live up to it but I thrived under that challenge. It expedited the creative process. If I was on stage in front of 300 people instead of 30, I had to work harder at my performances because I had a greater responsibility. It was very exciting, but creative too.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm one of those guys who will drink to, uh, kind of celebrate. I don't drink too much when I'm down or anything like that. But you've really got to be, I guess the word that came to mind is "creative," about the way you're celebrating. You want to keep the celebration going. I've learned that lesson over and over. Here on the road there's a lot of cause for celebration, but you just gotta get the damper out a little bit, and you want to keep that governor on. You want to keep your give-a-shitter in kick.

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.

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

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

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

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People in the media and press often say they've never been good at math. It might be that people that consider themselves creative didn't consider themselves good at math or didn't find math interesting at those early stages. And those creative people are disproportionately represented in those influential roles.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

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.

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

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.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

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.

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.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

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

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

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

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

The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

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

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

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

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.

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

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.