The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. – Robert Green Ingersoll
I’m controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I’m difficult on every single level. – Sandra Bullock
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. – Sandra Cisneros
At 100, I have a mind that is superior – thanks to experience – than when I was 20. – Rita Levi-Montalcini
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. – Ronald Reagan
‘My self-esteem,’ ‘my self-this,’ ‘my self-that.’ Believe me, I’ve been there – I’m an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, ‘I have to take my mind off myself!’ – Raquel Welch
For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I’m a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still. – Ruth Ozeki
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don’t write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song’s all right, I wouldn’t choose to sing it now. – Roy Wood
I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it. – Salma Hayek
Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness… it gets your senses to be spot-on and it’s also a great way to take my mind off things. – Shaun White
For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back. – Peter Schuyler
I’m not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don’t have that talent; I look up to the people that do. – Olesya Rulin
Obama, he wouldn’t have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people. – Rodney King
On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn’t he said, ‘Do you mind if I mug you here?’. – Paul Merton
Other kids’ parents wouldn’t let them read magazines like ‘Weird Tales,’ but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn’t mind. – Robert Weinberg
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood. – Renee Fleming
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. – Raymond Chandler
I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I’d be traveling a little bit, I’d be going to classes and I’d be going back to school. – Ricky Williams
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. – Ramana Maharshi
Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can’t help myself. There’s something about my mind that always wants to keep counting. – Rachel Nichols
I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go. – Quvenzhane Wallis
I have an aim – I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart. – Rahul Gandhi
Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it’s the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic. – Ryan Coogler
People think I don’t like interviews but I don’t mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it’s stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it. – Ronnie O’Sullivan
I’ve always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said. – Russell Westbrook
