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Quotes About Thought

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?
~ Franz Kafka
they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight of any thought for the future.
~ Franz Kafka
Fragen war die Hauptsache
~ Franz Kafka
Desde que estou em condições de pensar, a afirmação da minha existência espiritual deu-me preocupações tão graves que tudo o mais me foi indiferente.
~ Franz Kafka
He was too tired to take in all of the consequences of the story; they led him into unaccustomed areas of thought, toward abstract notions more suited for discussion by the officials of the court than by him.
~ Franz Kafka
Now he remembered this long since forgotten resolution, and quickly forgot it again, like someone pulling a short thread right through the eye of a needle.
~ Franz Kafka
Yeah, I feel like every year there's some collective thought that podcasts just keep evolving and that podcasts are still just like the weird wild west of media.
~ Bowen Yang
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
~ Francis Bacon
This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
~ Newt Gingrich
The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
~ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.
~ Eugene Parker
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
~ David Hare
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
~ Warren Bennis
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
~ Samuel Lover
The real reason President Trump was elected, I think, to the extent I know anything about politics at all - and I know very, very little - is that a lot of people really were relieved to see someone stand up to the thought police of the progressive left wing.
~ Amy Wax
Tournament play demands patience to survive and win. Winning at cash games demands a whole other level of thought and deception. You need to reach into your bag of tricks and run the occasional big bluff to be a consistent cash game winner.
~ Daniel Negreanu
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
~ Anne Enright
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
~ Henry Rollins
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective.
~ Maryanne Wolf
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
~ Mark Goddard
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used to go in, open the microphone and say the first thing that came into my head.
~ Terry Wogan
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
~ Ian Hunter
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
~ James Mark Baldwin
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
~ Andre Gide