Quotes About Thoughts

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?

The Imp of the Perverse will try to torment you with thoughts of whatever it is you consider to be the most inappropriate or awful thing that you could do. To illustrate this point, each of my patients whose thoughts are summarized below (many of whom you'll meet in later chapters) told me that his or her particular bad thoughts focused squarely on whatever was for him or her the most inappropriate, awful, or shameful thing he or she could think of doing:3

Thankfully, as you will see, the two facts that, (1) you are upset by your bad thoughts, and (2) that you have never acted on them, are sure signs that you will never act on them.

Possession of anything begins in the mind.

There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

No, your job as a leader is to inspire and to galvanize, not to share your distraught thoughts. You make your people dispirited.

In one second of time, the conscious mind utilizes two thousand neurons. In the same second, you subconscious mind utilizes four billion neurons

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

It never occurred to us to save any of those things. We never thought they'd have any value later on. We worked in a very small office, and the printer would send back all the original pages of artwork, but we had no place to put them. So when we ordered food, we told the delivery guy, "Hey, would you mind taking these pages and dropping them in the trash on the way out?"

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

he couldn't help but think that nearly anything could be used as a weapon, if one was in a weaponry mood.

With any word, there are subconscious associations, which simply means that certain words make you think of certain things, even if you don't want to.

trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct

Always, no sometimes, think it's me But you know I know when it's a dream I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong That is I think I disagree

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source." These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity.

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

A snatch of Nietzsche came to him

I pressed my face into my pillow and squelched some extracolorful words. Way to go, ace — have embarrassing personal thoughts while you're two feet from a mind reader.

Lately I've been falling asleep with my headphones on, the music paving over my thoughts.

the health of the body is determined to a great degree by our mental processes: what we think of life and especially of ourselves, at both the conscious and the unconscious levels.

In the end, writing is like a prison, an island from which you will never be released but which is a kind of paradise: the solitude, the thoughts, the incredible joy of putting into words the essence of what you for the moment understand and with your whole heart want to believe.

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System--the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse.