Mind Made Up Quotes

• Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time... and it's all good.

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  Richelle Mead

  Thinking   Long   Mind  

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.126, Penguin

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• Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

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  Robert Jordan

  Men   Ideas   Oil  

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.227, Macmillan

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• The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

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  William J. Clinton

  Thinking   Giving   Mind  

  "Bill Clinton talks about common good, challenging GOP". William J. Clinton's speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., www.rawstory.com. October 18, 2006.

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• I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational   Positive   Inspiring  

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

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  John Stott

  Echoes   Mind   Scripture  

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

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• It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

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  Muhammad Ali

  Winning   Guy   Mind  

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• Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring   Strong Women   Fear  

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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