#mind

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve. ↗

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do. ↗

— Adam Sandler

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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#get #growing #growing up #i #kid

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#back #bad #because #boy #characters

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am! ↗

— Carlos Santana

#attract #i #i am #i love #love

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ↗

— George Santayana

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ↗

— George Santayana

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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. ↗