My Thoughts Quotes - Page 14

• my brain
  Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
  Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
  There hung a darkness, call it solitude
  Or blank desertion.

  William Wordsworth

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Darkness

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.638, Wordsworth Editions

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• I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Heart, Adventure

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  America, Share, Gloomy

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• Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

  Mason Cooley

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Years

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• I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Giving, Style

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• Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Morning, Men, Age

  "Iraq-Bound Troops Confront Rumsfeld Over Lack of Armor" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2004.

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• I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

  Heath Ledger

  Expectations, Plague, Feels Right

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

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• These are the lords
  That have bought titles: men may merchandise
  Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
  From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
  But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
  'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
  It cuts off all desert.

  Eliza Haywood

  Cutting, Men, Sea

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• The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

  Vivian Gornick

  Loneliness, Writing, Empty Rooms

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• On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

  Corey Feldman

  Creative, Musical, Alive

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• For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.

  Jakob Bohme

  Blessed, Heart, Sadness

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• Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Ideas

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• I kept a lot of my thoughts inside myself. So, perhaps more than is normal, I'm always questioning my role as a writer. I'm always stopping and asking myself: Do I have the right to tell this story? Is it a story that deserves to be heard? And as for whether I think of myself as a Writer with a capital "W," I very much hope I never do.

  Lauren Groff

  Thinking, Questioning, Deserve

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• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, Soul

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• Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, Writing, Jumping

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fathom, Constellations

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• I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  "Beethoven: The Man and the Artist".

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• Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Loud Voices, Hands

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

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• As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

  Philip Yancey

  Play, Long, Trying

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

  Tucker Max

  Smart, Stupid, School

  "Uncommon Interview: Tucker Max". Interview with Jen Glickel, www.chicagomaroon.com. May 17, 2005.

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• I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Trying, Sifting, Wonderful

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides a way of thinking. And I think those two structures - one highly logical, the other anything but - are always part of my thought process as I'm putting together a story.

  Brian Evenson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Two

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  Carl Jung

  Circles, Resistance, Sun

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fashion, Heart, Angel

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.218

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