Thoughtful Quotes · Page 7

“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?”

— Matt Drabble

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

— Earl Nightingale

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

— William Butler Yeats

“I’ll call you a thoughtful critic if you agree to call me a fascinating blogger.”

— Venkatesh G. Rao

“With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity”

— Marcel Proust

If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.

— Mother Teresa

How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

— Maggie Stiefvater

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

— George Bellows

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played…

— James Brady

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to…

— Olly Murs

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

— M. Scott Peck

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

— Phoebe Cates

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we…

— Mother Teresa

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

— Nina Dobrev

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

— Howard Schultz

WME and IMG both truly understand and value my music and Mosaert's creative visions; they are forward-thinking, all-encompassing, and thoughtful in how…

— Stromae

I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants…

— George Pattison

Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but…

— Ilham Aliyev

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Robin Williams was a cultural hero of mine, and in the encounters and interactions I was able to share with him, he…

— Dave Itzkoff

“Nobody or Nowhere? Fern: I'd rather be nobody at home than somebody somewhere else. Ambrose: I'd rather be nowhere. Being nobody when…

— Amy Harmon

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to…

— Chris Pratt

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back…

— John Muir

By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under…

— Nora Gallagher

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his…

— Charles Dickens

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the…

— Robert Rubin

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for…

— Dave Barry

I think people are attracted to The Huffington Post's blend of up-to-the-second news and thoughtful opinion, delivered with an attitude. Plus, I…

— Arianna Huffington

Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to…

— Garry Wills

Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.

— Robert Rinder

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.

— Kevin DeYoung

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.

— Jeremy Schoemaker

“For a minute, we're just two people wondering why things are the way they are.”

— Kathryn Stockett

You can't rush being thoughtful it frustrates the process.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

“It's not about being educated, it's about being civilised.”

— Deepak Madhu Nair