#mind

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do. ↗

— Mick Mars

#attitude #different #different attitude #drank #had

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#establishing #long-term #mind #truce #us

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#come #experience #indians #may #reminded

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#come #experience #indians #may #reminded

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. ↗

— James Laughlin

#any #course #good #his #i

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? ↗

— John Lennon

#disproved #dragons #dreams #even #everything

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. ↗

— John Lennon

#effect #great #great effect #had #i

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#country #development #human #human mind #into

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#agreed #art #aware #conscious #control

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#also #assume #attention #aware #because