I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
~By Willie Nelson ~
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
~By David R. Brower ~
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
~By Dean Koontz ~
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
~By Sai Baba ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~By Allan Bloom ~
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
~By Walker Evans ~
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
~By Richard Russo ~
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
~By Lucy Larcom ~
I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.
~By Dennis Brown ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
~By Richard Cowper ~
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
~By Ted Nelson ~
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
~By Edward Walker ~
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
~By James Allen ~
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
~By Alexander Smith ~
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
~By Buddha ~
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
~By Steven Wright ~
Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
~By Jim Rogers ~
Our best thoughts come from others.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
~By Robert Barany ~
I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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.
~By Dave Eggers ~
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
~By William Shakespeare ~
To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
~By Mainbocher ~
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
~By David Bohm ~
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
~By Horace Walpole ~
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
~By Sidney Altman ~
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
~By Loretta Young ~
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
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.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
~By Raul Julia ~
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
~By John Calvin ~
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
~By Susan Taylor ~
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
~By Paul Valery ~
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
~By John Keats ~
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
~By John Dryden ~
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Thoughts have no sex.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
~By Buddha ~
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
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.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
~By Peter Steele ~
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
~By John Henry Newman ~
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
~By Wade Boggs ~
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
~By Alexander Pope ~
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
~By James Douglas ~
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
~By Bob Marley ~
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.
~By Scotty McCreery ~
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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