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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. -- Stephen Hawking
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others. -- Jerome Bruner
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. -- George S. Patton
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. -- Edward Gibbon
Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy. -- Arthur Guiterman
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. -- Alison Pill
Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. -- Charles Churchill
A passive mindset manages to live with mediocre, but an active mindset leads to change until excellence results. -- Orrin Woodward
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. -- Orrin Woodward
An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers. -- J.R. Ward
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed -- Samuel Johnson
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially. -- Ayn Rand
If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head. -- Brett Hull
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure. -- William Thurston
Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee? -- William Shatner
A mind too active is no mind at all. -- Theodore Roethke
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active. -- Jane Goodall
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. -- Westbrook Pegler
I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets. -- Hilary Mantel
I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited. -- Terrell Davis
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. -- Henry Rollins
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. -- Ralph Cudworth
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. -- James Humes
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. -- Zebulon Pike
My dad was always super-active and got me in the gym at a young age. He wanted me to be health-conscious. 'Healthy body, healthy mind'; that's what he preached to me. -- Scott Eastwood
I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going. -- Ernest Borgnine
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone. -- Gerry Harvey
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress. -- Ashley Greene
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. -- Ambrose Bierce
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. -- Ellsworth Huntington
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development. -- Melanie Klein
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer. -- Charles H. Townes
When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. -- Prince Andrew
We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds. -- Sterling W Sill
The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our minds. -- Wyatt Tee Walker

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