“Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 83 of 303
“Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.”
“I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.”
“I'm a thinker not a talker.”
“Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.”
“It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.”
“They [people] mistake fashion for style.”
“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”
“On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."”
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
“Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion - and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder.”
“Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.”
“Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.”
“People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.”
“Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.”
“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”
“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.”
“I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.”
“Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.”
“Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.”