Top 1200 Train Of Thought Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

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

I never thought of myself as beautiful. I thought I was OK, certainly good enough to get along.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

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.

Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

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.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.

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

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

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

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

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.

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

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

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.

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

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

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

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

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

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

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.

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 thought all comedy was stupid. I went to watch a friend do stand-up and I thought absolutely everyone was terrible.

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

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.

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

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

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?

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

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

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

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

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.

I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

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

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

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

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

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.