Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn’t mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense – the idea that anyone can make it.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Football is a game you play with your mind.
I don’t mind being criticised, because I am not that easy to knock down, and no-one can destroy me. But I am bothered by the stupid people who call me dirty, brainless, and an idiot. You don’t say words like these to someone who you know nothing about.
A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.
It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I’d sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
A city is a state – of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace – where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
I think it’s nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It’s a fair exchange.
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn’t be able to make it from room to room.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
For me, it’s all about keeping an open mind; if you are always learning then you are always improving.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
My mind’s my kingdom.
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there’s something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you’ll have an engineer for life.
Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
