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If you want to be an engineer, doctor or scientist in today's world, you need athletic ability in the body and mind.

Before going to the L.A. Olympics, I had participated in only two competitions in 400m hurdles. Yet I came close to a medal. So if your mind is strong, you can achieve anything.

The director needs to have a vision and clarity in his mind. It's not enough to know the story, he or she should have the knowledge and efficiency to execute it articulately.

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.

When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.

A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made.

Sometimes I think getting your mind off the game and doing other things can make you even better. Everybody's different. You have to find out what works for you.

When young players come into the league, they see how pop culture has affected the other sports, like the NBA and the NFL. They come in with more of an open mind.

Part of me is nonhuman and eccentric, which is what a hobbit is, and I don't mind being eccentric.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

They were too young to be proper parents. They never said, 'You've got to go to bed or you'll be tired for school'. They didn't mind - they let me stay up.