I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
I don’t mind being a symbol but I don’t want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I’ve seen what the pigeons do to them.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
‘Sexy’ is a state of mind, and it can come in all shapes and sizes. It is different for every person.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
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.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I’m sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Comebacks are not at all easy. After a major surgery, the difficult part is to conquer the inner demons. It’s all in the mind. Only an individual can overcome his fears.
I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
I really think that I don’t mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It’s not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
My favourite movie of all-time is ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.’ I love Kate Winslet.
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.
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.
Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
It’s all in the mind, you know.
Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I’m more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.
Mind you, I’ve always been musical… Mother used to sit me on her knee and I’d whisper, ‘Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,’ and she’d say: ‘Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.’
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what’s on my mind, and that’s it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It’s making kids so stupid.
At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
I don’t have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.
