Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
Lord Thomas Dewar
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Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
THOMAS DEWAR Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
UNKNOWN Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.
UNKNOWN Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
JAMES DEWAR SR. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
JAMES DEWAR, SR. Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are clo...
CRISS JAMI Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of the...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you are good, then He is surely Forgiving to those wh...
QURAN I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more l...
LARRY WALL The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greate...
RENE DESCARTES Dewar's rule in hi...
KURT MENDELSSOHN Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
RACHAEL RAY Mind is like a parachute, it works best when it’s open.
104INC Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The art of listening is enhanced when we open our minds
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Countless sinners are sanctified, attaching their minds to the Feet of the Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.
MADONNA Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
BENNY HILL My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
TAHEREH MAFI We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
LORD DEWAR Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
BENNY HILL Seeing with open eyes, opens up minds.
Thinking with open minds, opens up hearts.
Living with open h...
MARK G LYNCH Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventio...
GIORGIO VASARI The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.
CARA DELEVINGNE We are investigating all angles. We need to keep our minds open.
RASHID QURESHI These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks,
HENRY SCHACHT You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Indeed, when people lose their cell phones, it's like losing their minds. And they forget who their ...
JAMES KATZ The two that jump out to me are Jason Morton's offensive rebounding work and Thomas Sander's offensi...
BOB MCKILLOP When you work on something and you do it to the best of your ability and you put it out there...you ...
CHRIS GILL When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
- Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning;
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait ...
BIBLE His humble servants partake of the sweet Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord and are satiated. The Lord see...
GURU NANAK But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in intern...
FAREED ZAKARIA You work your best, when you work from the comfort zone, not when you are pushed around.
APURVA GAGLANI Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas...
THOMAS EDISON I like that Best Buy has all these balls in the air, but they are not all going to work.
GREG MELICH No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
LORD THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would b...
WYCLEF JEAN Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I work best when people are here to puncture me.
TOM BERGERON Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the L...
BENNY HINN I think this club will work best when there is a strong group identity, when members feel that they ...
AARON DAY I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information.
RYAN SEACREST Small minds want you to stay small with them. When you reach for higher grounds, they work hard to b...
TROY GATHERS Thoughts are things & when we entertain them in our minds,they soon become ours.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but...
LORD JEFFREY Open your minds that is the clear vision.
SEAN CROSBY A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
TOLEDO BLADE A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to...
JOHN BARNES When change is brewing in your life, open your eyes, and if they are already open, open them wider.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connec...
CHARLES BRONFMAN My best friend and I are like brothers and we've always wanted to open a night club.
DENNY JACKSON Scientists do their best work when they are in their early years. Writers' skills don't necessarily ...
JAMES GUNN The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...
BRANDI L. BATES When people are in grief, making something like this is the last thing on their minds.
JACQUELYN QUIRAN The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS DEWAR An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation
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DEYTH BANGER There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
ERIC HOFFER There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
ERIC HOFFER All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion...
EZRA KOENIG People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little min...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY The Great Giver lives; no one dies. O Nanak, those who do not enshrine the Lord within their minds a...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily,...
FRANCIS JEFFREY In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
MARVIN MINSKY Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? / Jesus sa...
BIBLE We look for people with open hearts, open minds and open homes. Other than that, there's no pattern.
LUCY HILBURN I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are es...
BENNETT MILLER When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they...
WYCLEF JEAN When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
HORACE WALPOLE In the True Court of the Lord, they are approved. They are approved by their Lord and Master, and ac...
GURU NANAK They are small& they are many ,But when they come together,they become a coalition of SMALL MINDS wh...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creating
new ideas.
ERALDO BANOVAC Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches e...
PANKAJ PATEL They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mut...
JAMES PATTERSON One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about ...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA It's best to compare varieties and genetics based on multi-year and multi-site averages, when they a...
DR. RANDY BOMAN Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disa...
HENRY EDWARD ARMSTRONG Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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