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Quotes About Thoughts

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
~ David Walliams
I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.
~ Nathan Englander
I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.
~ Martin Seligman
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.
~ James Rollins
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
~ Vera Farmiga
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
~ Daphne Guinness
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
~ Sally Kempton
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
~ James Allen
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
~ Agnes Martin
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
~ Dee Hock
I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.
~ Francis Galton
I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.
~ Heath Ledger
Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.
~ Prentice Mulford
Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.
~ Rebecca Stead
Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve
~ Grenville Kleiser
The law of attraction is always working whether you believe it or understand it or not.
~ Bob Proctor
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.
~ Sigmund Freud
The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.
~ David Boreanaz
Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.
~ Dalai Lama
I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.
~ Patricia Piccinini
Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.
~ Chris Cheney