#mind

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#authentic #been #belief #come #could

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#best #book #breathing #deadline #down

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#articles #going #i #keep #lot

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#anything #call #child #effort #habit

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#continually #day #else #enough #every

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