Quotes About Thought

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

Khouri had never really given much thought to the slowness of light. There was nothing in the universe that moved faster . . . but, as she now saw, it was glacial compared to the speed that would be needed to keep their love alive.

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

All I know is that I think, and therefore I'm exceedingly angry.

Being a thing with a central nervous system complex enough to understand the concept of being a thing with a central nervous system. Simply being. Consider all the inanimate

It never occurred to me that 'Phantom of the Opera' was the sort of subject that I'd want to do, because I just thought it was something that would be a bit jokey. 'Til I read the book.

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.

Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread.

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

I got a phone call from Jon Favreau saying, 'I need the voice of a personality-less robot, and I thought of you immediately.' I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard, so I said, 'Yes.'

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of actually running a department.

When I am on the pitch, I play on intuition, but I think a lot about the game as well.

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.