The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. – Samuel E. Morison
The fact that three-fifths of an octopus’ neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own. – Sy Montgomery
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know. – Vijender Singh
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West – but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers. – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
If my mind’s not trying to fix something or create something, I don’t know what to do. It just throws me off. – will.i.am
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. – Zahi Hawass
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? – Steven Pinker
A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, ‘You’re one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met,’ and I was like, ‘Wow.’ – Zac Efron
I wouldn’t mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I’d like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I’ll play on anyone’s record to be honest with you. – Steve Jones
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. – Thornton Wilder
I have no idea what goes on in another person’s mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don’t go back and say, ‘Why did this person get to the right position?’ It’s only, ‘Are you yes or are you no?’ – Tammy Baldwin
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf
I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that. – Scott Kelly
I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up. – Taylor Schilling
I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top. – Yvette Nicole Brown
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun. – Taylor Swift
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. – Tony Campolo
Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I’m sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue. – Wynton Marsalis
I wouldn’t mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, ‘Damn, we haven’t heard anyone this real for years.’ – Tom Odell
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I’m not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events – anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I’m saying because I have experience with that. – Wladimir Klitschko
We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money – someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money – we don’t give that easy. – Stanley Ho
Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song. – T-Pain
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it’s truly dangerous. – Tim Robbins
