Top 1200 Original Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

I was approached by Avon which took me by surprise, cause I thought "why me?" I thought it would be Olga, but they wanted me to be the face of their fragrance and since filming Bond I have recorded an ad that looks great and obviously the stills. It's brilliant because I never thought I would get to do anything like that and it is a lovely opportunity.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

Yes, I've been very low, I thought I won't survive. I thought I won't make it, not just in my career but in life too.

I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

I had such a warped self-image. And I really think America thought I was an eccentric loudmouth. I thought I was demure.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

I literally never thought I would be playing a pregnant cis woman earnestly. I thought maybe I'd do that in a sketch or something.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

You can say that all you want, but even in the little time that I've been in this industry, I've learned that it isn't exactly what you expect, so you've got to have a level head. I thought people would dig it. I thought people would enjoy it. It's AMC. I thought people would be fans. But, I did not think we would be the best new show on television.

Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

I thought I was decent at table tennis, but when I saw Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling, I thought, 'maybe not'.

With 'Crazy Story,' I thought it from the back to the front. I thought about the ending first, then what's going to happen.

Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest me at the airport. I thought I would change literature as we know it. I thought I'd have men lining up at my door wanting to be my boyfriend. But later I discovered that no one read the book. Or no one cared. Right now, I have only one book translated into Arabic. Someday, maybe if the Syrian regime falls, there will be others, but probably another regime will come into power and it will employ just as much censorship.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

I always thought, 'Wow, I know I have an important story to tell,' but I never really thought it would happen.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.

It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought.

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.