In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.