One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")
I thought that I'd never be able to work in films or TV. Another girl would be cutting her nose to be an actress. I was always very sure about myself.
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, 'I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting women in a vegetarian co-op.'
