Quotes About Thought

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.

Anfield - that's the plan. A fight in my team's ground. Always cherished the thought of that, too.

I don't know where that thought came from and I don't know why I had that thought, but I thought I was the best fighter on the whole planet.

Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

The comedy seeds were planted before the Marine seeds. The thought of comedy never happening was scary. When you have a plan, you never know what will happen.

When I went to D.C., I thought I would have an incredible platform to help animals. But I realized very quickly that there were huge limits to what I could do.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That's the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There's an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

If the director has clarity of thought and vision, you are bound to just go ahead and do what he wants to do. I respect that.