Top 1200 Clarity Of Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

I really never thought people would think that I was funny, I thought (my friends) thought I was funny because I was their friend, but other people would just think I was an asshole. I was at least partly right.

I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.

The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.

When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I'm always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity.

In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.

For decades, I have watched neoconservatives paint those who oppose their interventionism as appeasers of dictators standing in solidarity with socialists, soft on Russia, naive about terrorism, lacking moral clarity and unappreciative of America's unique role in the world.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

I never really thought that anyone thought there was just one kind of Republican woman.

What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

I thought I wanted to be a machinist. I thought that was the most glamorous job in the world.

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.

Given that his rousing speeches play on a perpetual loop somewhere in the back of the national psyche, and the bulk of the country is unshakable in its view of Churchill as the greatest of British heroes, how can the historian see him with any clarity?

How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.

To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception.

Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself.

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.