Minds Quotes

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Little things affect little minds.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

None but ourselves can free our minds.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Little things please little minds.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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

We really believe that whatever we put our minds to, we can achieve.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.