Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.