J. M. Coetzee Quotes

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

The more mind is filled with chattering, more sex has appeal.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This can happen on any flight. It can happen on the last one as well as the first one. You just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew, and you go fly.

I was so frivolous for so many years. It was so much fun, but you feel guilty about the brain energy you use to think about whether some celebrity was sleeping with another celebrity. The conjecture that goes along with that. You feel like your mind has been shot apart.

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

My mind is always racing with ideas or things I should be doing.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.