195 Quotes About Minds

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day."[Academy Award ceremony, March 2, 2014]

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.

Why is some music so much deeper and more beautiful than other music? It is because form, in music, is expressive–expressive to some strange subconscious regions of our minds. The sounds of music do not refer to serfs or city-states, but they do trigger clouds of emotion in our innermost selves; in that sense musical meaning IS dependent on intangible links from symbols to things in the world–those 'things', in this case, being secret software structures in our minds.

If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

So this is the trick to growing in your career: whatever you hear, read, learn from outside your industry...don’t think literally...think laterally about how you will apply it to your work. This will bend minds.

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets