Thoughtful Quotes by Dominique Crenn, Joseph Wood Krutch, Venerable Bede, David Walker, Raney Aronson-Rath, Ken Kesey and many others.
Obviously, growing up in France, I had foie gras probably when I was two years old. Writing about it and understanding what’s going on in the world about it, I think I became more conscious and more thoughtful about things, for sure.
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.
Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at ‘Frontline’ is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
LSD lets you in on something. When you’re tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don’t even know what species you are sometimes. And I don’t know of anybody who hasn’t come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.
Horror film fans are pretty starved for quality. If you do something thoughtful or if you make something good, they’re so thankful for it.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
I don’t have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It’s part of the fun.
Does the thoughtful man suppose that…the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.
… so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man’s face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.
Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
Robin Williams was a cultural hero of mine, and in the encounters and interactions I was able to share with him, he was always gentle and generous, humane and thoughtful and hilarious.
Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states.
I personally love watching greats like Matt Lauer, Scott Pelly, Howard Cossell, Bryant Gumble and others that can stimulate an intelligent, thoughtful, moving conversation or interview.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Cory Monteith was a great guy; Funny, deep, thoughtful, and hardworking. In real life, he was the coolest dude, generous, and a great friend to his pals.
I’ve been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
My decision to return to the MLS is one that I have made with thoughtful consideration.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.
After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.
With a whirl of thought oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead.
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead.
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Obama’s the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he’s thinking about what he’s saying while he’s saying it, and that’s a rare thing in politicians.
I mean everybody knows there’s something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; ‘What is to be done?’
I come from a liberal tradition. I’m Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I’ve found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.
We’ve found that people crave a thoughtful exchange of ideas in a long-form interview, which is why the tradition that we have inherited from the original ‘Firing Line’ is relevant again. Our program has impacted the way the public understands our policymakers in Washington and beyond.
Thinking is seeing…. Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.
Most of my mentors and investors have been incredibly smart, thoughtful men. I’ve had the privilege of being mentored by some extraordinary men who saw something in me and took me more seriously than I knew how to take myself.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.
My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ but now ’30 Days of Night’ took its place. I think it’s brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually ’30 Days of Night.’
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
I believe the term “blog” means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.
I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine
Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn’t going my way.
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.
The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.
The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.
It’s important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
I appreciate anything thoughtful.
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I’d never find a man. What’s very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I’ve ever met. He’s a great man and a very good dad.
Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.
As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
With Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.
The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.
If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.
If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation – well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.
The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.
Zachary Jernigan can’t write a bad story. He couldn’t even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop…. Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.
Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.
I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” “See, on the front it says, вЂGet Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?” “Sure, I’m hungry too
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
Try to imagine that you’re the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It’s more than self-awareness; it’s the ability to access this super-intelligence.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation’s flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
While no state has more at stake in immigration policy than California, the entire nation stands to benefit from thoughtful immigration reform.
The truth is, our democracy is stronger when more people participate and when everyone’s views are heard. More participation not only leads to a more representative government, but also more thoughtful policies that better leverage the strengths – and better address the challenges – of the American mosaic.
I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with – a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.
Researching ‘Lone Wolf,’ I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn’t provoked by the human.
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.
I don’t Twitter every day. I just think we should be more thoughtful with what we share. I don’t care that you’re turning a light on right now. That’s great and all, but there’s got to be a balance there.
I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on ‘The Leftovers’ are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
I think there’s an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.
It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we’ve all read pieces where we thought, ‘Oh, who gives a damn.’
I’m very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
You gotta play the hand that’s dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I’ve played it.
Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
It’s important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues in some places…who your translator is can mean a lot.
Man is a thought-adventurer.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
I attract a different kind of boy when my hair’s red. I get more quality men – like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.
I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.
My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
my thoughts are spent
as the black seeds.
my thoughts are spent
as the black seeds.
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we’re intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we’re blindly accepting… or blindly resistant.
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men’s thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
Making work for me is being in the world, but it’s also being specific about being in the world. I’m interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.
He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention… It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.
I don’t mind doing interviews. I don’t mind answering thoughtful questions. But I’m not thrilled about answering questions like, ‘If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?’
Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I’m being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it’s back to the same old crap.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
The rain of matter upon sense
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come.
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
It’s a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.
I’ve worked with some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium, and they all have something in common: a quality that is creative, comfortable, and thoughtful.
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
I try to be measured and thoughtful about what I put out there because I know a lot of young people follow me on Twitter, and I take that seriously – which is why I don’t exclusively tweet about cookies and ‘Game of Thrones’ and YA.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
Scientists are skeptics. It’s unfortunate that the word ‘skeptic’ has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it’s just thoughtful inquiry.
And the way
Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes
Not heard of for years at a time, did,
Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise
It was inside the house,
And always getting narrower.
Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes
Not heard of for years at a time, did,
Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise
It was inside the house,
And always getting narrower.
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.
BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.
God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker
Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
My childhood hero was David Attenborough. He opened my eyes to the wonder of the natural world. In fact, he’s still my hero. I interviewed him at the Science Museum in 2015, and he is such a thoughtful, humble and inspiring person.
A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year.
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
I don’t believe there is one most romantic act that a guy can do; I think it is all about the couple in question, which totally differs. It’s about you thinking about the person you are with and doing something tailored and thoughtful for them.
I’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, ‘Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators. We’re also inventors. We’re also thoughtful.’
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.
Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that’s been the exception rather than the norm.
As a chef, I’ve always been very conscious and very thoughtful about the way that I buy food or have my farmers produce it.
The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
Man’s life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality.
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality.
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the cultural life of their areas.
I always think about my jokes as like I’m driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I’m just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.
Education is man’s going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
[William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine – very glitzy covers that promised practically nothing in terms of what was inside, very rushed paper anymore. You – not very contemplative, thoughtful or whatever.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.
Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn’t have anyone to tell me, ‘You can’t.’
Adversity is the first path to truth.
I got ВЈ25. My friends all gave me ВЈ5. It was a very thoughtful present.
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you’ve chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century – and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.
Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother’s life – her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter – are all worthy of art.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission – the things they neglect to do – the good things – the kind, thoughtful words, compassionate thoughts and hopeful attitudes they might have had towards their neighbor.
I love Alton Brown’s show ‘Good Eats,’ about the chemistry of food. It’s really thoughtful.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.
Mom as it’s your birthday
And, unfortunately, not mine
Give me some money and I’ll get out your hair
While you have a large glass of wine
I try so hard to be thoughtful
And, unfortunately, not mine
Give me some money and I’ll get out your hair
While you have a large glass of wine
I try so hard to be thoughtful
Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and – I have to say it – in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.
Most people’s major life changes don’t come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
It’s hard to do, but a disciplined candidate who really has thoughtful solutions and a plan to execute on them, I think, is ultimately the kind of person that’s going to resonate.
In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.
So with President Obama, he’s a very different style. Very thoughtful, posed.
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog – you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.
Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.
There’s no set like a Ryan Murphy set, mainly because it feels like he’s built an entire world. He’s so thoughtful and meticulous, and every detail is thought about and cared for.
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
I’m not going to do a song that’s really sad and thoughtful. Although I’ve done ballads like ‘Dear Darlin’,’ I want to make them dance and be happy.
The best opportunities are often ones where you’re being contrarian. That doesn’t mean being contrarian for contrarian’s sake, but it means you’re thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.
When poets – write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
My car had broken down, and a neighbor of mine, this old guy, helped me change a tire. We just had a superdope, thoughtful conversation. And I realized, yo, this is rare. Like, this needs to happen more often.
One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I’ve been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can’t I view it with anything but amusement?
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
You don’t always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it’s a path to a better life.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another’s.
It’s not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.
Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating.
We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren’t enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase – long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative.
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.
The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn’t appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don’t get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.
I’m a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year’s resolutions went.
I’ve developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.
I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn’t have anyone to tell me, ‘You can’t.’ When you’re young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That’s why I can never understand someone telling me ‘no’ today. ‘No’ just isn’t an option.
I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.
I don’t like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]
Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
The danger of what’s happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.
Feelings follow actions. If I’m feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I’m feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.
I’m teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
My father is very Jean Valjean. He’s what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It’s not talked about that much.
Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.
As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn’t always go to plan.
Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
I put all my energy and thoughtful commitment to everything that I do. There is no other way!
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust… you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it’s so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.
A great man is one who has not lost the child’s heart.
Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.
The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business plan.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
If I’m receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you’ve never met before. I really believe in manners.
We admire predators – panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you’re a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature’s thoughtful that way.
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.
Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.
Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.
Telling the truth – telling thoughtful truths – should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.
That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we’re in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
We must protect the very things that make America so special – most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse.
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
Life is not all about accomplishment; it’s all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.
Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
Normal. She wasn’t normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn’t want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.
I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
If you feel good about your clothes, you get excited. And I want women to feel good when they’re wearing my clothes – not just because they’re beautiful, but because the process and every step involved in making them is incredibly thoughtful. You can be proud wearing them.
And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden’s mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.
It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.
I think it’s important for the American people to be thoughtful consumers of information and to think about the sources of it and to think about the support and predication for what they hear.
In the 1950s and ’60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.
Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.
Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it’s not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it’s worth it.
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.
Those old adages – you attract more with honey; do unto others – are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you’re thoughtful and respectful of their position.
Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
I’m progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.
Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
John Lott documents how far ‘politically correct’ vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.
Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
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.
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.
We are always the same age inside.
My favorite video to film was ‘Work It’ because it began the incredible road ahead. Missy was protective and thoughtful of us kids, removing us from the mature scenes and using the clean version when we filmed.
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don’t deprive myself, but I’m thoughtful about my choices.
I don’t believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)
I’ve interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden… who tend to have a universal picture of what he’s like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful – lots of things that don’t fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
I’m a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don’t have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that’s one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started.
The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid – like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that’s rude.
In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They’re very thoughtful people – it makes sense to hear what they have to say.
I want to create this really smart, thoughtful podcast network where I do for young people what somebody did for me.
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.
My focus is always on the day. What I’ve done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn’t abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it’s all real to me. I’m basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
You are more thoughtful because you don’t act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks – there is something about that number – but when 70 came along I felt good about it.
I love that Cuties is sustainable. They use good ingredients. They’re a really thoughtful brand. And I like that they don’t leak.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
I think ethics is always there; it’s not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
To write long pieces – or not even long pieces – to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that – they’re different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x’s and o’s. Inside baseball, it’s all, ‘Who’s gonna win?’ or you’re comparing things – it’s not as thoughtful as it used to be.
She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn’t educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more – and giving them extra credit besides.
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being.
My parents were loving, caring, generous and thoughtful.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
I’m pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I’m thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.
In the beginning I thought that metal was something scary, but I learned how thoughtful and amazing metal is. I’m so honored to be a part of it.
The private Prince Philip – the inner man – was infinitely more difficult to reach. He was more sensitive, more thoughtful and more tolerant than you’d expect, but he kept these qualities hidden.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people’s traditions.
I am hungry to be interrupted
For ever and ever amen
O Person from Porlock come quickly
And bring my thoughts to an end.
For ever and ever amen
O Person from Porlock come quickly
And bring my thoughts to an end.
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.
Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn’t really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.
Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
I thought Obama was brilliant. He’s so informed. He’s circumspect. He’s articulate. He’s thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there’s never been anything like it.
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I’m more in the middle on taxation.
We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
I wouldn’t express anything without being very thoughtful.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It’s also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.
Congress must take some thoughtful and targeted steps towards long-term solvency in the Social Security program. One such step is to eliminate the cap on income that is taxed for Social Security.
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It’s nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I’m getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
I think of myself as a human being.
My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
I like John Kerry. I think he’s intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he’s deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he’s an internationalist, which I am.
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.
As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making – I don’t like knee jerk decisions – but I’m not afraid to make decisions.
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
It isn’t a matter of hope. It’s a matter of – between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let’s try something but let’s also be very thoughtful about what that something is.
When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn’t really like me.
I haven’t had one sexual thought since the court martial.
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
I can’t describe it, what I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. This means something. This is important.
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I’m going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites.
The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative.
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don’t get our civility back, we’re in trouble.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others — both animal and human — rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Valentine’s Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.
I’m trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don’t make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.
In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.
As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they’ll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.
WME and IMG both truly understand and value my music and Mosaert’s creative visions; they are forward-thinking, all-encompassing, and thoughtful in how they envision me continuing to grow.
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
The film’s star, Eminem, doesn’t appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful ‘8 Mile’ is a raw version of the rapper’s own story.
Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher’s personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors. She took time to be concerned – she knew all about my children and wife Mila and so on.
I felt Facebook had a lot of what I appreciated about government – being around a collection of really bright, thoughtful people motivated to have a positive impact.
Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.
I like thoughtful girls.
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don’t know what comes next in the story… clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.
People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you’re either an uber-loyalist babe, or you’re a rebel. There isn’t any grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn’t space in public debate for that.
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!
Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education…Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.
I had a deep prejudice against the South. It’s taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
I am my father’s only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.
There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they have something called species survival plans, and they do it in a very thoughtful way and are careful with the genetics.
As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis’ will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the German Jew in his historical role, in his good as well as his bad light.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
Love is not necessarily about grand gestures. It can be the little things, like someone knows you like a certain food so they pick it up for you. Stuff like that is sweet. It’s little things that are nice and thoughtful that you can do every day.
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
I like the values associated with a medical family – common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
Dontel Benjamin on ‘Eastbound’ is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on ‘Rake’ is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn’t scream a lot.
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn’t going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.
Become the world’s most thoughtful friend.
My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I’m glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
I’m more thoughtful and aware of how my body feels. I’ve learned the difference of what is just sore from a hard workout or what’s sore from a possible injury.
I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
A birthday:-and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife-
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
With much of hope, with meaning rife-
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
Just look at Gal Gadot when she smiles or when she meets somebody and shakes their hand. That is the embodiment of Wonder Woman. She is so beautiful and powerful, but kind and generous and thoughtful. She’s just an amazing person.
The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don’t know if there’s any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.
Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.” “Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
Speaker Ryan’s vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country’s leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.
Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
We could not be more proud to have LeBron James as part of our Lakers family. He is an incredibly thoughtful and intelligent leader and clearly appreciates the power sports has to unite communities and inspire the world to be a better place.
When somebody is enthusiastic about a job opportunity – but gives off the feeling that this is not the only one they have on the table – they become more seductive in the employer’s eyes. You become more desirable because it shows that you’re making a conscious and thoughtful decision for the right reasons.
How do you get ‘feng shui’ out of ‘thoughtful’?
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Ive taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and Ive actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.
We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.
I’ve never dieted in my life; I like food too much. I’m just thoughtful about what I eat, and I’m lucky that I love the taste of vegetables. I’m certainly not ‘actress skinny,’ and I never will be. I’m strong, and my body works great for me.
What is to give light must endure burning.
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air–a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
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.
sensitive,” I tried. Sam translated, “squishy.” “creative.” “Dangerously Emo.” “thoughtful.” Feng shui.
So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It’s an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they’ll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.
I’m incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good.
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
A good song is like a mannequin – its form makes sense, but there’s no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don’t have to help you.
I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it’s a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.
I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.
As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that’s been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put ’em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
Sometimes the way through someone’s tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.
This year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man; exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally; take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it.
The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won’t come naturally to many people inside huge companies.
‘Star Trek’ is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
For me, I love food. It’s my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It’s one of those things where, if you’re not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there’s a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.
I’ll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn’t find more of a gentleman. He’s sweet, he’s kind and he’s extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don’t need a bishop’s assignment to be kind. We don’t need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don’t need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?
The race isn’t to the swift, it’s to the thoughtful.
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It’s a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.
‘Guardian’ journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.
It’s always a huge red flag for me when somebody’s reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
One of the thoughtful questions we could be asking is, “Have you ever gone to Google and typed in 20 week baby or 20 week fetus? Try it and click on the images.” Suddenly your friend will see what a 20-week-old baby looks like in the womb. That image is clearly a unique life.
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn’t help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.
Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all…. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What’s excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly
I’ve been so impressed with the kinds of thoughtful questions that I’ve gotten from young people, from Girl Scouts, from teenagers.
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there’s a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
I’m very thoughtful and thorough when it comes to my looks and the detail I put into my drag.
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
Viola blows out a thoughtful air. “My dad used to say, ‘There’s only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'” “There’s only forward,” I repeat. “Outward and up,” she says.
Scientists are skeptics. It’s unfortunate that the word ‘skeptic’ has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it’s just thoughtful inquiry.
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head,” said Peridan. “Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins.” “It is very true,” said Edmund. “But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.” And he looked very thoughtful.
There’s certainly satire written about techies, but it’s so snarky and snide and doesn’t treat him as a whole person. The people I worked with at Twitter – they’re very analytical, but they’re also deep and thoughtful – I feel like they deserved a charismatic spokesperson.
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.
But I’ve grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you’ve learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
The Lazysphere – a working definition – is a group of bloggers who I won’t name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another “me too” blog post.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
… the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on “doing nothing.
I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
I think it’s a shame when people don’t see the funny, thoughtful Mark that I know. He is incredibly sensitive and really cares about what other people need and want and really wants to be able to make someone else’s day. And that’s the Mark that I see.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
I’ve taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I’ve actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.
Yes, I realize when I’m reaching out to people and asking them to talk about the most traumatic thing to happen in their lives, I have to be really sensitive and thoughtful.
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
I like somebody who’s not so crazy but likes to have a good time… and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. “I don’t know what happened to me,” he said, shaking his head. “I honestly don’t.” Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. “You grew up, Alex,” he said, “just like the rest of us.
We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
All my kids’ given names, the first names, are all from people in my life, and they have my husband’s last name. And we were very thoughtful about it.
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it’s almost a non-event when it happens.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
I really am a full-blown Scorpio. Whenever I look things up about my sign, it’s like, Check, check, check: thoughtful, detailed, moody, stubborn, prideful, emotional.
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they’ve ever been is kicked.
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.
Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don’t have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we’re doing it in a thoughtful way that’s thinking about the 10 and 15 and 20 years long battle we’re going to have against jihadists.
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
Meat is complicated. We have to be thoughtful about the ecosystem that we’re living in and not to destroy it because of the instant gratification and the demand of others.
Looking good is important. We’re our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
The interpretation of thought as “”inner speech” has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems–thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
We’re thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace… all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to – certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art – novelists are buying into it wholesale.
I was used to Essex boys growing up. Russian boys are a lot more gentlemanly and thoughtful. They will express their emotions a bit more.
I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he’s not ‘against’ technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.
What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.
There’s no idea that can’t be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn’t get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old’s.
A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
I’m a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,–fine breeding.
In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
She is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. No one is more thoughtful than Christine Bleakley.
I’ve always believed that thoughtful people don’t really take the tabloids seriously. They’re basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.
When you become sufficiently expert in the state of the art, you stop picking ideas at random. You are thoughtful in how to select ideas and how to combine ideas. You are thoughtful about when you should be generating many ideas versus pruning down ideas.
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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.
Republicans and Democrats know Xavier Becerra to be a thoughtful leader who is always willing to listen to both sides.
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don’t like Tom Purdom, you don’t like science fiction. Period.
People think I appear on television to promote my image. That’s not fair. I hate filming. I turned down ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. ‘Super Doctors’ is a very thoughtful piece.
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
Peace begins with a smile.
When the whole world is writing letters, it’s easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one’s thought is not a value, only a common practice.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
I’m a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.
