I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . . . I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.
I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.
This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.
It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes. " And you're thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought that I was doing this" but basically what they really want, especially if they wrote it, is they want you to do it as they imagined it. It's virtually impossible.
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.
I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.
But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.
We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.
. . . learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.
Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.
We would have to invent the U. N if we did not have it which is not an original thought
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
