Quotes About Trains Of Thought

#1. He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.

Thomas Harris

#2. Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

John Frusciante

#3. Used properly a hashtag can be really cool. Hashtags provide an opportunity for sly editorial comment, for parallel and perpendicular trains of thought, in the limited space that Twitter and, to some extent, Facebook provide.

Bill Walsh

#4. In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

George Henry Lewes

#5. The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought

Sigmund Freud

#6. ( Certain memories, certain trains of thought are like the aching tooth one must always be touching just to make sure it still hurts. )

Aldous Huxley

#7. Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong

Marc Lewis

#8. Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Franz Kafka

#9. Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#10. Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Theodore Zeldin

#11. Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#12. I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Cecelia Ahern

#13. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Richard Lewontin

#14. Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,
balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Jeremy Collier

#15. we are quiet tonight, but in the same
silence

David Levithan

#16. People never fully confront their wrongdoing. They are all trying to push for their own ends, and they lack the strength to truly apologise for that. In my heart of hearts, I wondered if I was just the same.

Guy Mankowski

#17. I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.

Tracey Emin

#18. Loving others, she thought, is the good thing we do in our lives.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.

Christine Taylor

#20. I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.

J.M. Coetzee

#21. Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

Bill Walton

#22. Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

Dov Davidoff

#23. And who isn't less innocent than they lead us to believe? That's one of the fundamental truths about human nature.

Glenn Haybittle

#24. Oh." Dad frowns. "Why hasn't Annabel been teaching you how to walk in heels? I thought we had an agreement: I teach you how to be cool and she trains you how to be a girl."
I stare at him in silence. This explains so much.

Holly Smale

#25. RVM's Thought for the Day -
Days are like trains, they will zoom by. you can be zapped seeing them pass or you can jump on to one of them and enjoy the Journey.

R.v.m.

#26. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Peter M. Senge

#27. Given a blank we can't help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

Heather McHugh

#28. Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

George R R Martin