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Thoughts Quotes

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

– John Updike

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

– James Lane Allen

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, ‘Don’t think like that,’ and things seem better.

– Juliana Hatfield

When CNN does a story and then says, ‘Tweet us what you think’ – why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It’s enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.

– Jason Alexander

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

– John Maynard Keynes

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

– Jaron Lanier

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

– James Joyce

I have thoughts – obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to – it’s like a broken re – a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just – then I can’t get past it and move on with my life.

– Howie Mandel

Night is the mother of thoughts.

– John Florio

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

– John Dryden

How utterly are one’s best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

– Julia Ward Howe

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

– Joyce Meyer

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

– Joyce Meyer

Even ordinary people aren’t ordinary, not really. They’re filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

– Julianne Moore

To reflect is to disturb one’s thoughts.

– Jean Rostand

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

– Joel Osteen

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

– John Henry Newman

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

– Immanuel Kant

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

– Jules Verne

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

– John Keats

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

– John Dryden

The Comedy Store in LA, it’s a really loose room and it’s really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

– Joe Rogan

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

– James Lane Allen

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

– Joel Osteen

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

– Joyce Meyer

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

– J. Michael Straczynski

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you.

– Aaron Koblin

Prayer is a form of meditation, isn’t it? It’s laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It’s just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.

– Anthony Joshua

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

– Janet Fitch

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

– Jeffrey Kluger

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