Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
So many mouths can get fed, so many minds can be nourished, if India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue through a Kashmiri-owned, Kashmiri-led peace process.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we’re turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that’s because we still have the opportunity here.
I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where you enjoy the process of loathing them so much that you want them to be there. It’s such a weird, twisted thing that our minds do.
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists – whatever else they might be – might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
It’s great to express yourself and tell other people’s stories and get into the minds of people who aren’t like you.
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly – almost without our knowing it – seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
People’s minds are overloaded with information.
The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do ‘Criminal Minds’ in the first place.
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
Little things affect little minds.
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do – tell the story with images. I can’t wait to see what they do.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It’s almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it’s just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America’s closest friends. That America can’t be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
My head spins. One moment I’m told I’m too edgy, then people say I’m too angry, then that I show too much passion… make your minds up.
It’s fun wandering around other people’s minds.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
