Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Tags: thought infinity intent defeat wish indulgence invulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I thought it would all fall into place. I've changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them. —Mhairi McFarlane in You Had Me At Hello More about this quote Tags: life change thought inaction decisions serendipity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? —Tom Stoppard More about this quote Tags: thought eternity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's weird. I never knew how much I had to hate about myself until I had the time to think about it. —Jason Myers in Exit Here More about this quote Tags: self-hatred thought reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't think, just do. —Horace More about this quote Tags: action change thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: mind acceptance education thought intelligencs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: ideas art thought film movies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: thought thinking brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Tags: labor thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. —Michelangelo More about this quote Tags: art thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: thought nonsense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends. —James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism More about this quote Tags: art thought work creativity originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. —Robert Quillen More about this quote Tags: thought heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have not spoken to him for ten years, but I thought of him every single day. —Ruth Ware in Dark Wood More about this quote Tags: time memory thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought. —Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent More about this quote Tags: danger thought diversity absent-mindedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email