Elizabeth Hay Quotes

She remembers reaching into her schoolbag for the letter the way you reach for a second piece of cake if it remains on the table long enough. You do it without thinking, even though you've been thinking of nothing else.

Elizabeth Hay

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• I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Myself

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Art

• Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Wishes

• We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Future

• It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

  

  Katie Featherston
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• With things that I'm going through, whether they be on a small scale or a large scale, I'm thinking, 'Who else is going through this? And how can I address it and bring it to light to help someone else?'

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Small

• At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Thinking

• Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

  

  Khalid
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • War

• Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

  

  Mary Lyon
  • Thinking
  • Suffering

• Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Thinking
  • Creativity

• If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to go to work.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

  

  John Badham
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Running

• Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Energy

• You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If it's not fun, what's the point.

  

  Ayelet Zurer
  • Fun

• I grew up going to the store, seeing the products of L'Oréal, seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Store
  • Commercials
  • Ambassadors

• When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Done
  • Growing
  • Economy

• Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Consciousness
  • Addiction
  • Opposite

• She remembers reaching into her schoolbag for the letter the way you reach for a second piece of cake if it remains on the table long enough. You do it without thinking, even though you've been thinking of nothing else.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Thinking
  • Reach
  • Remains