Yes, at times in front of goal a fog descends. Perhaps the speed of my feet doesn't match up with that of my mind.
Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!
The mind creates those things that exist.
No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work....
Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of...
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....
No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for...
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the...
She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion....
In his article, Bogen concluded: I believe {with Wigan} that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...