Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1624.

  • Anish Kapoor One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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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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  • Barack Obama One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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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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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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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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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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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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  • Barbara Jordan Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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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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