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Quotes About Thought

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
~ John Ashbery
But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it, Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought
~ John Ashbery
That clever folk care less for what ye think than why ye think it.
~ John Barth
It seemed to him, the more he thought about it, a kind of marriage between stone and water, the oyster. Inside a stone, water thickens into an oyster, and then it pulses within its shell like the gray heart of a gray stone. He felt he was getting close to something he needed to understand, not about oysters, about something else....
~ Unknown
You are not there, Father," I cried. "I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind." "And that is?" "This house is haunted.
~ John Boyne
Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.
~ John Brunner
It was pretty clear that he was mad, for madness means just this dislocation of the modes of thought which mortals have agreed upon as necessary to keep the world together.
~ John Buchan
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
~ JOHN C MAXWELL
The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result
~ John C. Maxwell
Thinking divorced from actions cannot be productive.
~ John C. Maxwell
When you know your purpose and priorities and you have ordered your day, week, or year according to them, you have a clarity of thought that strengthens everything you do.
~ John C. Maxwell
Good Thinking Produces More Good Thinking
~ John C. Maxwell
However, when I include all three components— thought, emotion, and action—my communication has conviction, passion, and credibility. The result is connection. I believe you can achieve the same result when you include all three.
~ John C. Maxwell
Dios crea a todos los seres humanos con dones naturales, pero también los fabrica con dos extremos: uno para sentarse y otro para pensar. El éxito en la vida depende de cuál de ellos usamos más, y es como echar suertes con una moneda: ¡La cabeza gana! ¡La cola pierde!
~ John C. Maxwell
Bu hayatta gerçekten unutman?n yolu o kadar nadir bulunuyor ki, diye düÅŸündü.
~ John Cheever
Once you've got -- actually got -- an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.
~ John Cleese
Frames of Mind
~ John Cleese
Wolf Solent was able to indulge in such an orgy of concentrated thought, that these three or four hours lengthened themselves out into something beyond all human measurement.
~ John Cowper Powys
Thought is a real thing. It is a live thing. It creates; it destroys; it begets; it projects its living offspring. Like certain forms of physical pain thoughts can take organic shapes. They can live and grow and generate, independently of the person in whose being they originated.
~ John Cowper Powys
I'm in love with the thought of you, not the things you do...
~ Unknown
Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.
~ Dodinsky
I'll wish you a happy birthday a day early since it's likely I won't think about you two days in a row.
~ Unknown
You would have loved the gift I didn't bother getting you.
~ Unknown
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~ Unknown