#mind

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control ↗

— Josh Stern

#bladder #confidence #control #humor #life

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#psychology #life

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#giving #i #including #mind #myself

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that. ↗

— Albert Finney

#bothered #celebrities #feel #felt #i

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#mind #nietzsche #change

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#believe #charms #contemplating #faults #flatter

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#create #mind #money #process #repelled

Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way. ↗

— Leila Summers

#inspirational #mind-body-spirit #change

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know—or think we know—is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#mind #experience