Thoughts Quotes

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.