#mind

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#censorship #evil #extensive #extremes #good

If there is anything I really fear it is the mind of a young girl. ↗

— Jane Heap

#fear #girl #i #mind #really

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. ↗

— John Piper

#god #intellect #mind #objectivity #truth

Hitchcock had a very strange mind. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#hitchcock #mind #strange #very

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#attitude #aware #burial #cultural #dead

Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#i #i love #love #me #reminds

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#continued #crisis #even #firm #front

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#change #day #docile #humble #kind

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#amsterdam #canals #city #conditions #dutch