My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.