#thoughts

Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#posture #women #positive-thoughts

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that. ↗

— Rory Cochrane

#disaster #i #like #negative #negative thoughts

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#burn #concentrate #focus #hand #rays

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#came #clubs #i #into #knew

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ↗

— George Berkeley

#body #every #exist #formed #ideas

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#any #artists #being #competing #etc

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. ↗

— Michael Buble

#being #being afraid #everything #failure #fear

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#deep #dominate #earth #kind #lives

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#him #life #love #man #men