“Mind moves matter.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 727
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Mens agitat molem.
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Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BCRelated quotes
“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
Wheeler's succinct summary of Einstein's theory of general relativity, in Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam (2000), p. 235. http://books.google.com/books?id=zGFkK2tTXPsC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA235
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard Baruch in response to a question by Igor Cassini as to how he handled the seating arrangements at his dinner parties, as quoted in Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (1948) by Bennett Cerf, p. 249; the full response was "I never bother about that. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." This anecdote is also quoted online at Chiasmus.com http://www.chiasmus.com/archive/msg00241.html. It has also become part of a larger expression, which has been commonly attributed to Dr. Seuss, even in print, but without citation of a specific work: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
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Variant: Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
“Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.”
Often quoted response to Igor Cassini, a popular society columnist for the New York Journal American, when asked how he handled the seating arrangements for all those who attended his dinner parties, as quoted in Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (1948) by Bennett Cerf, p. 249; the full response was "I never bother about that. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." This anecdote is also Chiasmus and has also become part of a larger expression, which has been commonly attributed to Dr. Seuss, even in print, but without citation of a specific work : "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
“Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”
“The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.”
When Farooque Sheikh, host of the talk show Jeena isi ka naam hai asked him what he thinks of those who criticize his style of commentary "Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai" on Zee TV, (17 June 2004).
Variant: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
“The power to move the world is in the subconscious mind. ”