Welles reported to Roosevelt that Ribbentrop had a " completely closed and very stupid mind ".

And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

Barely moving, with eyes closed and communicating by telepathy, they are the penultimate form of human evolution, having become a single group mind readying themselves to join the Overmind.

It is important to bear in mind that the previous definition is only valid for a single reaction, in a closed system of constant volume.

It proved difficult since the IIc was a closed system that initially was designed with no expansion capabilities in mind ; however, many companies figured out ingenious ways of squeezing enhancements inside the tiny case.

Donlevy played him as a mechanic, a creature with a completely closed mind.

) That closed the discussion, but in the following days, my mind kept returning to the idea.

* In cognitive science, the modularity of mind refers to the idea that the mind is composed of independent, closed, domain-specific processing modules.

According to a now elderly Bruce Wayne, Jervis " burnt out " his mind years earlier during his final confrontation with Batman, and has since spent his days locked up in the mental institution wing of a hospital in Neo Gotham after Arkham Asylum closed down, but in that time has become docile, and rather senile.

It proposes that the human mind is unavoidably limited, or " closed " in some areas of thinking, and so these areas then are forever mysteries.

But before you know it, he changed his mind not to eat him, the bird manages to escape and get back home but when he closed the door, she changed her mind and the bird then wanted to commit suicide again, while looking for the cat on every window.

They are likely to have closed mind sets, and are not willing to engage with mental models.

Indeed, those with a scientific turn of mind may take the devolution from Annie to Harry to A Lot Like Love as yet another demonstration of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says that in a closed system ( an apt description of Hollywood if ever there was one ) there is a tendency toward entropy-in this case, from acknowledged classic to memorable cable-television staple to dim, flabby dud.

Meanwhile Fischer remains aloof, with his mind closed to the house's influence, and is only there to collect the generous pay offered him to return.

In addition to reducing mistakes, this can also help locate potential " short circuits ": keeping in mind that all islands must be connected by one network of bridges, a bridge that would create a closed network that no further bridges could be added to can only be permitted if it immediately yields the solution to the complete puzzle.

When using a cabin hook in such a situation, one should keep in mind that a fire-resistant door is an expensive and heavy item, and it only works as a fire door if it is always closed.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.

I bethought me of the Lord's Prayer, and these words came to mind: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

They have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

And this means, I suppose, that almost invariably age reveals itself by easily recognizable signs engraved on both the body and the mind.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

He went on to explain what he had in mind.

and finally, the best part of all, simply sit at the plank table in the kitchen with a bottle of wine and the newspapers, reading the ads as well as the news, registering nothing on her mind but letting her soul suspend itself above all wishing and desire.

In spite of the hundred things he had on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her waist.

those presents had been on his mind.

So Mr. Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in order to keep Mr. Blatz's mind from funny things.

He did not mind the Line itself, which Churchill declared in the House of Commons, on February 27, 1945, he had always believed to be `` just and right '', but he did not want it called by a hated name.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representative Perception, in the book Philosophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, `` passed on to the brain, and there, by some unexplained process, it causes the mind to have a perception ''.

No doubt some experiences vanish so completely as to leave no trace on the sleeper's mind.

After this formal education, Elizabeth spent the next nine years tending to domestic duties, but with her lively mind, energy and vigour, the prospect of a solely domestic existence would not satisfy her, so she continued to study Latin and arithmetic in the mornings and also read widely.

Playfair later recalled that " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time ", and Hutton concluded a 1788 paper he presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later rewritten as a book, with the phrase " we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

Indeed, the army required a well-planned district built with the prospect of a war between Germany and France in mind and strategically integrated to the Schlieffen plan.

He had earlier favoured Hailsham, but changed his mind when he learned from the British ambassador to the US that the Kennedy administration was uneasy at the prospect of Hailsham as Prime Minister, and from his chief whip that Hailsham, seen as a right-winger, would alienate moderate voters.

An important implication of prospect theory is that the way economic agents subjectively frame an outcome or transaction in their mind affects the utility they expect or receive.

Dismayed at the prospect of the students losing their chances at scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and takes up the position of defensive coordinator.

During this time the prospect of emigration held a constant place in Fallada's mind, although he was reluctant because of his love of Germany.

Prior to this announcement Allingham often said that he tried not to think about the prospect, but has also been quoted as saying " I don't mind — as long as it's not me.

If you ask me, do I think I ought to be an Anglican, the answer is that I probably ought to be a Roman Catholic, but I don't see any prospect of that happening ... I have a very Protestant mind ".

They ask Jane if she doesn't mind the prospect of danger to which she answers that she doesn't.

Today, I would like to add just this: that everyone keep the prospect of death in mind and be ready to go before the Lord and Judge-and at the same time Redeemer and Father.

Retinger had planned on becoming a priest, and was enrolled in a seminary, but the prospect of celibacy made him change his mind.

It is therefore likely that Calvert chose the site for the new pottery with this in mind, although the close proximity of the Midland Railway and the Erewash Canal also afforded the prospect of excellent transport links.