Quotes by Mind We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness. Anne Waldman mindmightneeds I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind. Anne Waldman psychmindthinking [Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind. Anne Waldman other-culturesmindthinking This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that there's a question you have - "Does it really make sense?" Or, "Is that plausible? Is it implausible? Is it set up?" Or whatever. Go at it. Don't let it go. If there's a question in your mind, you're probably right. You probably do need to work on it and think about it more. Annette Bening let-it-gomindthinking As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind. Annette Bening actingcreativemind Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. Annie Barrows be-kindcrymind It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds. Annie Barrows lonelymindthinking What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength. Annie Besant bodygracemind Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men. Annie Besant mindheartmen Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Annie Dillard readingmindinspire It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree. Annie Dillard mountainmindtree We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it. Annie Dillard stonesmindwatches Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. Annie Dillard odorfilmmind I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind. Annie Dillard acresmindmen The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge. Annie Dillard collaborationmindart The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. Annie Dillard would-beminddoe The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. Annie Dillard mindwantworld Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself. Annie Dillard passionatemindbook Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus. Annie Dillard santachristmasmind You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again. Annie Lennox hopefulviewsmind«4243444546474849505152»
