Quotes with mind-bending

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  • Jean de la Bruyère One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brit Marling One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • James C. Humes One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Anatole France One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Marilyn French One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Bob Schieffer One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jacques Barzun Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Grace Speare Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Robert Southey Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Caroll Spinney Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Denis Waitley Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • John F. Kennedy Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Our psychology is... a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
    Psychology and Religion: West and East (1958)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Andrew Cohen Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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