The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

It is better to be the weird one than the one people say negative things about.

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

You might be a redneck if someone tells you you have something in your teeth, and you take them out to see what it is.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

Every movie is a love story.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.