Quotes About Thought

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

I am very lucky to do the things I do like - do a clothing line for Next and go live out a life I always thought I would have.

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story. I listen to a lot of music. I'm very committed to a process when it comes to drama, but with comedy, I think it's really about letting loose.

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.

Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

Love and the imagination are connected.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

In every Kubrick movie, there is so much great thought put into the surroundings. It's almost like the sets are huge characters in the movie at all times.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.