Quotes About Thought

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

I tried for about a year to write a teenage character until I finally got the phrase 'he has lost the power of rational thought and the use of his arms.' Everything else came from that.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

When you're living with a mob of other people, it's hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain't YOU no more.

Thought is a process of work, joy is an issue of work

Now love also becomes a reward so remote from me I have only made it with my mind.

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We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

Todo este tiempo he creído que pensaba en profundidad, pero se trataba tan sólo de una ilusión.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.