mind

"There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases."

"There was no question in Tristam’s mind now that if one stared into the semidarkness long enough one would find whatever one sought. What the eye could not locate the mind would manufacture."

"Most things people care about are silly. They don't think about the ones that matter."

"If only things were not as they are, she reflected, they would certainly be different."

"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biol…"

"The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well i…"

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."

"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."

"To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the pro…"

"I don't think I ever did pick a hit song, unless it was "Sweet Leilani". ... Some of the songs that Jack picked didn't work, but 99% of them did."

"I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinki…"

"Nobody seen form.It's state of mind where you are confident and you think very positively."

"I had every detail clear in my mind before I sat down to the typewriter."

"People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we c…"

"Animals are among the first inhabitants of the mind's eye. They are basic to the development of speech and thought. Because of their part in the growth of consciousness, they are inseparable from the …"

"There was something uncommonly fake and uncertain in every line of these articles, depite their threatening and self-assured tone. I kept thinking . . . that the authors of these articles weren't sayi…"

"Not eating. To not get fat. I lost about 15 pounds for the role because I wanted to get a sense of what it’s like to be hungry and what it does to your brain and your physical state. It was extremely …"

"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought."

"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala…"

"Why, gentlemen, humor is one of the most valuable things in the human brain. It is the torch of the mind -- it sheds light. Humor is the readiest test of truth -- of the natural, of the sensible -- an…"