Thoughtful Quotes

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

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

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.

Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Time in the most powerful thing.Not money, not power, not hope.A person can have everything theydesire but without time they are, all useless.

Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.