Thought Quotes

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.