#mind

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#impressions #like #longest #mind #ones

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#improvised #mind #new #single

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track. ↗

— John Malkovich

#mind #track

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#archaeological #base #evidence #ideas #keep

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#circumstances #does #even #everything #give

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#onto #prejudice #raft #safety #shipwrecked

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#business #came #casino #exit #fire

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#about #aspects #before #certain #certain things

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#dream #keep #mind #never #surprising

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely