Quotes About Thought

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

On a piece of paper, write down the formula for our human reaction: S-P-R This stands for Stimulus—Pause—Response.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

We only had one thing going for us: organic brains.

Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social reason for banalization. The chamber of love will be more remote from the center of the city: it will completely naturally re-create for the partners the notion of ex-centricity, in a place less open to the light, more hidden, in order to return to the atmosphere of the secret. The contrary move, the search for a center of thought, will proceed by the same technique.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Eventually, television got louder and faster, and closed up the spaces between sentences that used to indicate human thought was going on.

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Stark raving sane.

Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

The lid of the large box containing the bad memories had sprung open, spewing out its contents with no thought of order, creating a malevolent spirit that invaded her dreams and whispered to her she was to blame. That spirit tormented her nightly until her mind was in complete chaos.

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

chickened out. They had had a big argument. Marguerite's lips turned down in a pout when she thought

ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.

Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events -- the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33

Mari was hardly listening. A daring thought was taking shape in her mind. She began to anticipate a solitude of her own, peaceful and full of possibility. She felt something close to exhilaration, of a kind that people can permit themselves when they are blessed with love.

The past does not exist -- except in the brain.

Your brain has a difficult time distinguishing between what you see with your eyes and what you visualize in your mind.

The third question, thankfully, was less emotional. It read: "What is wrong with this statement?" How funny, Reynie thought, and marking down his answer he felt somewhat cheered. "It isn't a statement at all," he wrote. "It's a question.