These mindless quotes will inspire you. Mindless acting or done without justification and with no concern for the consequences or not thinking of or concerned about.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mindless quotes, mindless sayings, and mindless proverbs.
Best Mindless Quotes
- “A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you’re aware in anything you do – and it doesn’t have to be yoga – it changes you. Being present changes you.” ~ Mariel Hemingway
- “Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.” ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- “Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.” ~ Eminem
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“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings” ~ Diogenes
- “Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.” ~ Bill Griffith
- “Don’t call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.” ~ Anthony Daniels
- “We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.” ~ J. William Fulbright
- “There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.” ~ Calvin Harris
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“I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.” ~ Gary Lineker
- “If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic – and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness – is an art.” ~ Starhawk
- “Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can’t love what you don’t know.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That’s why the scenery is so flat.” ~ Rachel McAdams
- “Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.” ~ Wallace Shawn
- “I think its very dangerous, the idea of celebrity – you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment – its just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.” ~ David Suchet
- “A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.” ~ Teju Cole
- “You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.” ~ Paul Farmer
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“Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven’t said to that someone.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.” ~ Roger Penrose
- “Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
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“I didn’t want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.” ~ Fred Durst
- “We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.” ~ Gavin MacLeod
- “Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.” ~ Gary Gygax
- “Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I’m doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I’m not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.” ~ Lewis Carroll
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“I don’t think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.” ~ Freida Pinto
- “Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights…and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male “culture,” in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our “society” are raving sex maniacs.” ~ Valerie Solanas
- “The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can’t breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that’s where I aimed it.” ~ Veronica Roth
- “All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process – and how much better we could be if only we’d taken the time to understand and to reflect.” ~ Maria Konnikova
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“Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.” ~ Kathy Reichs
- “Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way–rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
- “The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.” ~ Alan Lightman
- “Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.” ~ Tom Robbins
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“When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.” ~ Jean-Louis Gassee
- “The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.” ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
- “Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It’s not so much interacting with my fans – it’s about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?” ~ Lily Allen
- “I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won’t allow their behavior to provoke us into words or behavior which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.” ~ Norman Tebbit , Mindless quotes behavior
- “The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it’s not just a question of tidying your house; it’s a question of liberating your heart.” ~ Merlin Mann
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“We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.” ~ Bruce Barnbaum
- “I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.” ~ Rosalind Wiseman
- “It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray – of the mind, do not be mindless” ~ Takuan Soho
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“When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.” ~ Art Wolfe
- “I know you’re not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.” ~ Rebecca Romijn
- “”Science,” of course, replaced “God” as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.” ~ Bill McKibben
- “Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.” ~ Naguib Mahfouz
- “From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.” ~ Richard Arnold Epstein
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“Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.” ~ Robert Genn
- “The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like — in some way at least — to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.” ~ Kim Paffenroth
- “So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment – not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel – but there’s a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I’d like to say that entertainment isn’t a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.” ~ Nicholas Meyer
- “World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn’t just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did close-ups on zombies who were performing, as a mindless dead thing. They were creepy and scary.” ~ Tom Savini
- “The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.” ~ Thomas Sowell
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“History has shown us that ‘Get Things Done’ is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government’s sake.” ~ Michelle Malkin
- “When I first heard the song Don’t worry – be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first.” ~ George Carlin
- “Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them …even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way… that’s why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile – and we should run the world.” ~ Goldie Hawn
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“The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.” ~ Fredric Jameson
- “If only St. Valentine was around to see his memory celebrated through the mindless marketing of whipping cream and lingerie.” ~ Dov Davidoff
- “No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: “I’m sorry; I didn’t see you; are you all right?” The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.” ~ Carol Tavris
