#thought

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#doctors #first #had #heart #i

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could. ↗

— Drew Brees

#accomplish #believe #could #just #maybe

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original. ↗

— Peter Falk

#cliche #come #danger #keep #maybe

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#could #good #guide #help #i

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#everyone #madhouse #patient #thought #war

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. ↗

— David Bohm

#actual process #attention #careful #further #itself

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. ↗

— David Bohm

#another #doing #feature #know #major

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates. ↗

— David Bohm

#constantly #creates #creating #makes #more

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

#case #cases #doctor #fact #far

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark