Musician Quotes

The poet ranks far below the painter
in the representation of visible things,
and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am the poet of my mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- Anais Nin

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

Each day provides it's own gifts.
- Martial (Roman Poet)

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter
of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember
who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
- Abraham Lincoln

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie