Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

I couldn't believe I dropped that punt and then came back to throw an interception. I thought, 'It can't get any worse than this.' I just kept fighting and my teammates rallied behind me.

I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden all world-ridden.

Our defense has just got to keep picking it up. There were some times, I thought, that we slacked a little bit in some areas, but our kids will continue to work and that will get better, also.

I think the attitude in the U. S. is changing. A lot of policy makers are opening up to that sort of thinking, ... But there's not a lot of money for programs like that, and the Canadian system is much smaller than ours.

That, ... is going to require some deep thought.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

I thought he'd been cut.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

We have this huge need (for affordable housing), and we thought, how in the world can we begin to satisfy the need.

The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

But I thought, what could I do in a teeny way -- and believe me, it's a teeny way -- to defuse this There had to be some way to separate the 1.5 billion people who don't want to kill us from the 100,000 or so who do. I thought if I could get five Muslims and six Hindus and maybe 3 Jews to laugh for 90 minutes, then I've accomplished something.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

When we came to work here we came with a mission. We wanted to shine light in dark corners and make the world a better place. We wanted to expose corruption. We wanted to provoke thought, debate and, yes, laughter. ...I don't believe that a newspaper is nothing more than a money machine. If you do, dear reader, then we have failed miserably in our commitment to you.

We give away tens of billions to Brazil, or to one place or another, without thinking. But in those days, to give even a tiny amount to Russia was viewed almost as anathema by many parts of our own society and our political leadership, whether it was the Bush administration or the Clinton administration.

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

It is the first time I've ever been in a dress. And it's terrible, well, it's first of all, you kind of, you look at it, and you think, who do I look like There is a moment of recognition. And it's not quite, and it's, who do I look like And you think, I got it after, you know, looking at a photograph of me, and I thought, it's my mother. I look like my mother.

I think, as first games go, we had our good moments and we obviously had our moments where we can obviously be better. The positives are that we got the first goal and also that we got the go-ahead goal at 2-1. The negatives are that we gave up a couple of goals that I thought could have been prevented and let them back in it.

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to findnothing.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I thought it was over, ... I didn't think Kordell Stewart could throw the ball that far. Then I watched it in the air and remember thinking, 'It might get there.' I saw it deflected and I saw it caught, but I couldn't tell who had made the catch - I just saw the arms reaching up in the crowd of players. But I saw the referee signal a touchdown. I knew CU had won.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

We were up five and I had the rebound. I don't know what I was thinking. I tried to dribble the ball out of the pack. Then they got a three-point play. Everything kind of went wrong, that could have gone wrong in that last minute.

I think, with what was identified before the surgery, it really came off similar to what Dr. Thompson thought would happen. Considering all things, I think it is a good result.

I came to do what I had observed every other thriving company doing classics and contemporary work. I wasn't thinking, 'The company's in limbo.' I wasn't thinking, 'I'm going to change the rep.' I thought I would just do what successful companies do.

Everyone at some time or another has looked into the mirror and thought, 'That's not who I am. The world sees me differently than I see myself,'

We were expecting a kind of balancing out between rising business sentiment and consumer confidence, which we thought would slip, but in fact we have improved on both fronts.

The long-term growth rate of Yahoo is not as good as some people thought.

I gave it a lot of thought. I've been traveling around the country. I've been thinking about that option. The fact of the matter is when it came right down to it, I decided while that race would be very do-able and the opportunity would have existed to do that, that's too many nights on the road, too many weekends away from this family.

We're going in thinking defense first. We're going to try to shut them down and get some offense off of our defense.

I turned a really good round into an OK round. Today I thought was my opportunity to do what Monty did yesterday. I made quite a few mistakes.

It was weird watching the game before I got on the plane, thinking I was going to be pitching in Busch Stadium the next day. That was kind of weird. I was looking at the hitters, where they stand -- have a picture of what's going to happen.

We just tried to think of things that we thought would be beneficial and fun for the children.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

All through the game, we were just thinking, I can't wait for the feeling to come. Every time there was a whistle (at the end), it was tough. We just wished those 45 seconds would go by and we could get out there and celebrate.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

It truly saddens me, however, that the relationship so nurtured between our two countries should have been marred by the Second World War. The Empress and I can never forget the many kinds of suffering so many people have undergone because of that war. At the thought of the scars of war that they bear, our hearts are filled with deep sorrow and pain.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, ... The first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.

I thought, What a great way to spend our tax money.

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

We did go through what we thought was a proper investigation, ... I talked to several people involved.

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

He thought it was nothing, thought it was a little bug. And then yesterday in the off day the cramps got pretty bad, still had a fever.