Top 1200 Original Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

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.

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

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

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

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

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

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

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

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?

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

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

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

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

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

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

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

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

There have been times when I thought my spirit would break and I just thought I have to believe in myself.

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.'

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

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

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

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

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

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

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

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

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

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

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

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

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

Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

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

I thought my father served the people of Orissa, and I thought I would continue that to some extent.

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

I thought I was great at football. For a long time I thought I could have been a professional if I'd wanted to.

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original.

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

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

You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

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

It was a weird reaction to 'Batman Returns,' because half the people thought it was lighter than the first one, and half the people thought it was darker. I think the studio just thought it was too weird - they wanted to go with something more child- or family-friendly. In other words, they didn't want me to do another one.

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

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

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

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

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.

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

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

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