#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

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#good #heroic #remind #show #stories

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#becomes #believes #either #mind #true

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for. ↗

— Harold Budd

#certain #directions #down #go #i

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#caused #conquer #constant #constant flow #country

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#consolation #fun #little #mankind #mind