Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

We got to (the bidders') threshold a little faster than we thought.

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

The Senate's agenda is quite light, ... There are no bills that have passed in the House of Commons. The majority of bills have already passed because we sat one month later into the summer. When you say the Senate is the Chamber of Sober Second Thought, well, you have to be thinking of something.

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

You want the pick to either go with Andrew or come with me. The guy kind of stepped out, but then he went back quicker than I thought, so they were both on Andrew and I had an open look.

They could be content
To visit other places, and come down
With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;
But 'tis not so.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I think the previous referendums were for everything an attempt to get it all done in one shot. I understand the thinking behind that, although I don't wholeheartedly agree with it. We need to take baby steps before we start running.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

I thought we'd get at least 12 wins, so I'm not too surprised. It's more of a surprise about other teams that have lost that I thought would be better, which helped us out.

I was scared at first. I thought, 'Oh, it'll go away,' and for two months it wouldn't. Shaking hands, stupid stuff like that, I was pretty sore.

My first thought was to get the ball inside to Jessica.

Yes, we're a good deal worse than I first thought. We've been bad in the first half in both our games and we've only improved when our opponents have tired.

I kicked it around in my head. It's basically just been a thought in my head. I haven't spoken to him about it.

I was real excited, I was nervous. Our crowd, I thought, was better than theirs they definitely got us into the game. I can't even describe how I felt running out there and people going crazy just for us.

There was no doubt in my mind the whole game I thought we were going to win. Once again, after that shot, we were in a similar situation. This is a team I thought would get to the national championship.

I had worked with him back in '83 on 'Weird Science,' ... and we had a great rapport. But then I saw him, I don't know, five years ago at a restaurant where he was completely out of it and rude, and I thought, 'That guy is gone.'

I had gone to Olympic Development Camp and played so badly. It was at altitude and I was out of shape. I thought, 'Oh my gosh, am I cut out to play D-I'. I was 5-2 and wasn't growing any more. Also, I don't play on Sundays and was losing a lot of experience not playing on Sunday.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

In my three years on this board, we have not commuted a single one, ... And as I looked at this, I thought, this might be the single one.

...by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.

The conventional wisdom is that people who have gum disease typically don't have a problem until they are 35 or 40 years old, ... We found it is much more prevalent than anyone believed at a much younger age than anyone thought.

We just gave it away. Only thing I was thinking was we worked too hard to give this away.

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees....

It's time for outside thinking. It's time for an outside viewpoint. And it's time for the people to have a voice in Austin.

The coaching staff and players did a great job, I thought, of settling me down a little bit and telling me not to be so hard on myself. I've got enough to worry about ... I knew coming in they were going to be loud.

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books I trow that countenance cannot lie, Where thoughts are legible in the eye. Was never eye, did see that face, Was never ear, did hear that tongue, Was never mind, did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. trow believe or think.

Stuart was insisting (we contribute songs), which I thought was a pretty disastrous idea. The first couple of records were very self-contained worlds with a style that was all their own. It struck me as being insane to muddle what was so distinctive in the first place. I thought there would be a decline in quality. And I think there was.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

If for some reason this wouldn't pass, we would have to examine our options. To be real honest, we haven't looked at our options. And there's no point in thinking about anything right now other than getting it passed.

The only way to begin, change, and success is to simplify and go step by step. Don't even bother writing everything down or thinking ahead of what you have to do, for this will make things seem complicated, overwhelming and too much. Simplify and begin step by step without the process of thinking too much.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

There were some interesting moments, but as I told my wife at 515 this morning, if we're not worried we're not recruiting the right guys. But it went exactly as we thought, and that doesn't happen. That might be the most surprising thing.

In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

So when we won, it was a pleasant surprise because we didn't go in thinking we would just run away with it. I think we showed that we can compete against the rest of the teams in our county and our state.

the four-time Gold Glove winner said. ''The pain was the same as before, but it started to affect my performance. It was mental, too -- it really altered the way I went after balls. I wasn't being relaxed, I was thinking, 'I have to get there really fast,' because I had to think about making the throw.

Today, we declare the resurgence of Ford. Here is what we will not stand for incremental change, avoiding risk, thinking short-term, blocking innovation, tying our people's hands, defending procedures that don't make sense, and selling what we have instead of what the customer wants. In short, we will not stand for business as usual.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.