#minds

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#children #dear #devolved #duty #expanding

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#cannot #come #even #fact #had

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about. ↗

— Richard Ford

#dream #even #forward #interesting #leave

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#beauty #best #does #donna #due

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#cinema #i #magic #make #me

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#faithful #heroes #mind #minds #mirrors

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#cat #dog #done #feelings #had

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#another #bad #i #instead #math

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#going #i #minds #people #say