"You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind."
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"Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind."
"...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society"
"The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better"
"There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind"
"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another."
"Civilize the mind but make savage the body."
"There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine."
"If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed."
"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."
"Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without."
"The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!"
"I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy."
"The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct."
"Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
"The sky is not the limit. Your mind is"
"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars."
"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."
"It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind."
"Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?"