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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Walter Scott

Success

Desire

Mind

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

Peace

Mind

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Marxism

Mind

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Franz Schubert

Mind

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Distrust

Mind

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.