Quotes About Thought

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We let the schema define our experience.

we are consciously aware of only a tiny portion of our perceptions and actions. To us, that small compartment appears to fill our whole mental cabinet.

At this level of mindfulness, it may help to use the method of naming—bringing to mind a single word that identifies the nature of the disturbance.

This experience sparked the reshaping of my thought process that has continued throughout my life.

Mind is mere experience—it is not matter; therefore its cause must be the same.

God is simple. It is only man which is an obscure darkness." Reb Isaac threw him an approving glance. But David said, "I feel that nothing is simple, and nothing obscure. Only thought makes it so, and often I am weary of thinking.

When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.

My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech. It wouldn't be transcribed in the form of words arranged linearly, but as a giant ideogram, to be absorbed as a whole.

People used to speculate about a thought that destroys the thinker, some unspeakable Lovecraftian horror, or a Gödel sentence that crashes the human logical system. It turns out that the disabling thought is one that we've all encountered: the idea that free will doesn't exist. It just wasn't harmful until you believed it.

our every utterance will reduce the amount of air left for thought and bring us closer to the moment when our thoughts cease altogether. Will it be preferable to remain mute to prolong our ability to think, or to talk until the very end? I don't know.

And then, our universe will be in a state of absolute equilibrium. All life and thought will cease and, with them, time itself.

writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.

My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech.

he knows he has a reward map but has never thought about what it would mean to edit it. "Might be fun editing my reward map," says Polo. "You not able edit your reward map when you working for someone else," says Marco. "You only able do that when you corporation.

Conventional languages. . . lack the power to express concepts that I need, and even in their own domain, they're imprecise and unwieldy. They're hardly fit for speech, let alone thought.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

Most ideas remain inside you for a while. You tell somebody when there is a spark or a thought, and leave it at that. You come back later, write down a few lines. I makes note in my mind on whether it can be made into a film or not.

I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.