Mind
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Every bad joke, every endorsement deal, all of the things that a typical host would normally get creamed for, people don't mind, because they know I don't cheat when it comes to the work I actually try. I'm a lab rat. I'm a perpetual apprentice. The joke is on me if there is one.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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