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Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically. -- Raymond Pettibon
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? -- Steven Pinker
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works. -- Daniel Kahneman
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. -- Carl Sagan
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions. -- A. S. Byatt
I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works. -- Leonard Mlodinow
How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write. -- Lori Foster
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. -- Lance Ito
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up. -- Mark Haddon
I didn't realize how many actresses have tons of extensions. Their hair is still pretty, but it blew my mind to find that out. I admire the girls who switch it up a lot like Rihanna. But I also love Gisele Bundchen because she found a style that works and never changes it. -- Shay Mitchell
I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself. -- Philipp Meyer
Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works -- Lilith Saintcrow
I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works. -- Patti Smith
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively. -- Margot Robbie
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. -- Virginia Woolf
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine -- Chuck Palahniuk
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works. -- Zoe Kazan
When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. -- Linda Seger

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