Thought Shapes Quotes

#1. A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the "power of precision," and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

Archibald Marwizi

#2. Nothing up there tonight but entropy, and the same imaginary shapes that people had been imposing on nature since they'd first thought to wonder at the heavens.

Peter Watts

#3. How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

Spencer W. Kimball

#4. I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Leo Baekeland

#5. What we dwell on much with our mind sinks into our heart and shapes our life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

William Wordsworth

#7. The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.

Eric S. Raymond

#8. A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Albert Camus

#9. G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

A. J. Jacobs

#10. Love, Eve thought, came in all colors, shapes, and sizes.

J.D. Robb

#11. I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.

Kate Grenville

#12. Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

John Sterling

#13. My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

Victoria Beckham

#14. The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Tom Barrett

#15. When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast ... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to accident and time. Purity is on the edge of evil, they say.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

Mary Midgley

#17. With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo ... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn't going to work.

Jonathan Ive

#18. The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

Jack Vance

#19. There be many shapes of mystery; And many things God brings to be, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path is there where no man thought. So hath it fallen here.

Euripides

#20. Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.

Octavia E. Butler

#21. ...he raised his eyes above the black shapes of the trees and saw a small moon, the colour of a lemon, dragged by clouds across the sky. Moons, he thought, were so that men like himself would know they lived here on earth.

Beryl Bainbridge

#22. These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.

Alexandra Kleeman

#23. Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Vera John-Steiner

#24. I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

Philip Johnson

#25. Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

Daniel Tammet

#26. His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

Victor Hugo

#27. Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Knut Hamsun

#28. One and the same thought was expressed many times in many different shapes till finally in one way or another it penetrated each individual brain;

Anonymous

#29. A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#30. What an author shapes into a coherent argument, or weaves into a story, is always much more interesting than the thought process behind it.

Rob Parnell

#31. I thought about having sex with Jess Clark and I could feel my flesh turn electric at these thoughts, cold feel sensation gather at my nipples, could feel my vagina relax and open, could feel my lips and fingertips grow sensitive enough to know their own shapes.

Jane Smiley

#32. TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Jennifer Stone

#33. There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Ali Sina

#34. The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought,

James Allen