#mind

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#always #associated #good #great #into

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#because #brains #effort #explain #how

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. ↗

— James Allen

#becomes #calmness #good #greater #his

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. ↗

— Edward Albee

#happen #immediately #impressions #know #loose

If I could have anybody I haven't had, I'd want to interview somebody like Jay-Z or Puff Daddy, pick their minds a little bit. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#bit #could #daddy #had #haven

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. ↗

— Ian Anderson

#clapton #eric #eric clapton #flute #happy

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#big #big heart #heart #i #large

The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility. ↗

— Bille August

#big #big difference #cannot #comes #crazy