Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games. – Zayn Malik
Training hasn’t been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame. – Tom Daley
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature – and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. – Tiger Woods
When I was 30 or so – by that time I had become an assistant D.A. – I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist. – William Landay
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you’re finished. You’re a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. – Tommy Shaw
If a gig goes badly, my main worry is, ‘Will these people come back?’ Because that will affect my ability to pay the mortgage – but nowadays, I don’t really mind what happens, as I think if it all goes wrong for real, you still have to go with it. – Stewart Lee
I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you. – Sophia Loren
Every time I’m ever in L.A., if I have anytime off – which is rare – I’ll go straight to the basketball court and play. That’s a way for me to escape and get my mind off everything. I’m so competitive, so if I’m playing basketball, all I’m thinking about is winning. – Trevor Jackson
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. – Vernon Howard
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. – Samuel Alexander
I’ve been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It’s helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I’ve lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow. – Ziggy Marley
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character’s mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way. – Tom Stoppard
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve. – Sam Kean
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. – Vernon Howard
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it. – Vera Wang
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. – William Blake
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. – Thomas Nagel
I’m in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street. – Suge Knight
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing. – Thich Nhat Hanh
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I’d go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it. – Tom Rachman
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future. – Will Self
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. – Vladimir Nabokov
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. – Will Rogers
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything. – Wayne Dyer
I don’t mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat. – Zara Phillips
