"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable."
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"Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind."
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"Your heart often knows things before your mind does."
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"A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head."
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"Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not."
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"I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed."
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"It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes."
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"Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves."
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"The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine."
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"It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them."
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"Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be."
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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
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"I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable."
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"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."
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"My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'."
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"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."
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"How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?"
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"Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things."
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"There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind."
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"Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive."
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