Quotes About Thoughts

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water! (Out Of The Deep)

And I suffered the streaming light to fall upon me, as I gazed into my joy and triumph with a kind of severe nonchalance. But though my face under my three-cornered hat can have expressed only calmness and resolution, I knew in my heart that my thoughts were merely a thin wisp of smoke above the crater of a suppressed volcano.

he was more comfortable exploring practical thoughts and real-life situations than metaphysical abstractions or deductive proofs. The

In the first few pages, I was confronted with my family, my anecdotes, my things, my thoughts, myself in the character Jane

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.

Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

I very rarely think in words at all

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through but whose telling would let out the pressure inside his skull.

bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Like most drunks he thought that if he took longer to think he'd come up with the thoughts of a sober man.

as well as in our own thoughts—the way one realization will suddenly overwhelm everything else, to be, in turn, replaced by yet another.

So it seems to me that our rate of blinking is somehow geared more to our emotional state and to the nature and frequency of our thoughts than to the atmospheric environment we happen to find ourselves in.

All great masters in any line think positive thoughts, which they put into action with intensive desire tested and tempered by balanced judgement.   All

Yet, with a weakness of mind not uncommon to great criminals, he shrank from the thoughts of his own baseness and cruelty, and endeavored to banish the feeling of dishonor from his mind, by devolving the immediate execution of his villainy upon his subordinate agents.

I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

As You Think, So Shall You Be.

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Syllogism ? Major premise: I can control my thoughts. Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts. Conclusion: I can control my feelings.

The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are.

Once you can change your thoughts, your new feelings will begin to emerge, and you will have taken the first step on the road to your personal freedom.