In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. Leo Durocher
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.Venus Williams
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. Aristotle
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo Da Vinci
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. Arnold Palmer
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. James A.Baldwin
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.Albert Einstein
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. Joan Didion
It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.Gabby Douglas
It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are. Randy Moss
It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way. Johnny Weir
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. Sarah Hughes
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Gautama Buddha
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. Michael Chabon