#mind

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#doing #into #mind #own #purpose

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#balance #because #between #bollocks #carefully

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

#closest #culture #deep #deep way #express

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#constitutional #i #i think #many #mean

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#follow #heart #i #listen #mind

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#before #conference #game #go #i

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#been #crossed #funny #i #jobs

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

I'm always for the person who speaks their mind. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#i #mind #person #speaks #their

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#becomes #eats #fly #intellect #mind