Quotes About Thoughts

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

Thoughts pass from one individual to another, each time a little transformed, for each individual can attach to them somewhat different associations. Strictly speaking, the receiver never understands the thought exactly in the way that the transmitter intended it to be understood. After a series of such encounters, practically nothing is left of the original content. Whose thought is it that continues to circulate?

Santa Paciencia Nati, la que hay que tener cuando se te vienen estas ideas.

O sea qué las cosas que no piensan no se pueden asustar?

Y no será qué un sueño es un montón de pensamientos sueltos?

Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.

A brand is the sum total of all the emotions, thoughts, images, history, possibilities, and gossip that exist in the marketplace about a certain company.

A brand isn't just the name on the box. It isn't the thing in the box, either. A brand is the sum total of all the emotions, thoughts, images, history, possibilities, and gossip that exist in the marketplace about a certain company.

Io faccio il mio mestiere, capito? Io sono un libraio, vado in giro, vedo un sacco di gente, vendo i libri, scopro talenti nascosti sotto le montagne di carta… io propago idee. Il mio mestiere è il più rischioso del mondo, capito? Sono responsabile della diffusione dei pensieri, magari di quelli più scomodi.

Whether thoughts and ideas manifest in a material outcome depends on our transmission of them into perceived reality.

We may not be able to change our circumstances, but we can change the way we think about them.

We don't need ten tips to a better spiritual life. What we need is to put God out front in our thoughts, priorities, time, and activities. If we allow his Word to govern us, we will see that he delights to show us "the path of life" and the path for our life (p. 45).

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don't usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I'm saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

And then, there have always been days when my mind does not make connections very fast. There are always days when my mind is cloudy, or I forget things, or I feel as if I am in a different town or a different house—that something around me or about me is not normal.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

She not only loves her children, she respects them. They have wills, tastes, thoughts, judgments of their own, and this is as she wishes it to be. She distinguishes clearly between counsel and command: command must be obeyed; counsel may be disregarded without rebuke and without loss of favor.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

The thing I call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants.

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

Knowing our emotions also means being aware of our silent self-talk statements and automatic thoughts accompanying our emotions and moods.

Then my outrage wandered away: never do junk if you need to finish thoughts, sentences, or simple tasks.

I used to try and forget, now I desperately try to remember. I used to control my thoughts, now they control me. I used to fear death, now I fear life.

Svatko je potencijalni Frankenstein, s nevjero­jatnom mo?i mijenjanja živog svijeta oko sebe. Na kraju, koliko nas odašilje uglavnom pozitivne misli?

Our brains are always busy, even when we're not trying. They take all of the events and information of our days and try to make them fit together. Try to make sense of them. And now and then, two or three pieces of information fit together in an unexpected way. This is called "getting an idea.