Top 1200 Simple Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

I just want to fill the hearts and minds of the people who listen to my music

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.

Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as Coca-Cola took a wisdom forged by years of experience; even then, there was a highly subjective element. A Berkshire stockholder once complained that there were no more franchises like Coca-Cola left. Munger tartly rebuked him. 'Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Noise pollution is basically defined as the presence of simple information that makes it impossible to hear all the other more delicate - and often more important - information. Noise pollution creates, if you will, dumb environments. Our industrial areas, many of our downtown urban areas, are dumb acoustic environments. Very simple, very loud, often unhealthy.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

My job description is to enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace.

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.