Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. – Thor Heyerdahl
I’m an artistic kind of person. I draw. I’ve drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people. – Vinny Guadagnino
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They’re like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my ’96 Jeep Cherokee. – Serge Schmemann
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind. – Sam Donaldson
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions. – Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Well, when you’re relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There’s no such thing as time when you’re really relaxed. That’s why meditation works. – Shirley MacLaine
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I’ve been or something I’ve done. Or politics. It’s going to what’s on my mind at the moment. – Tina Brown
When I’m asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. – Todd Solondz
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. – Wilhelm Wundt
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? – Thomas Hooker
You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it’s more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you’re making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It’s okay to do that sometimes, too. – Sophia Amoruso
Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won’t be free. – Stephen Marley
Now, I don’t mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. – Victoria Jackson
I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can’t think properly. If you’ve got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts. – Simon Cowell
By asking a novel question that you don’t know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new. – Walter Gilbert
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling. – William Godwin
The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind. – Simon Armitage
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It’s about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It’s easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what’s playing in your mind. – Victoria Osteen
Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can. – Susan Campbell Bartoletti
When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. – Tom Hodgkinson
I don’t mind women who want to act. That’s fine. It’s odd that men want to act, in that there’s still a degree of vanity associated with it. – Shane Black
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. – Thomas Keneally
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. – Voltaire
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind. – Stephen Hawking
I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I’ll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn’t mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do. – Todd Rundgren
