Quotes About Thoughts

Little things affect little minds.

Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.

Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don't have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It's an ideological tool.

In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.

I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?

I don't tweet - I have nothing to say.

Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there's a moment every day I write one and then delete it.