If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me 'you really think I'm afraid of you, man?' and I'm like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I'll tell you what, I'm scared of him.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
