Thought in sentence

15627 examples of Thought in a sentence

I woke up in intensive care, and the doctors were really excited that the operation had been a success, because at that stage, I had a little bit of movement in one of my big toes, and I thought, "Great, because I'm going to the Olympics!"

I soaked it up and I thought, "How could I ever have taken this for granted?"

And I thought, "How could it?

And then I thought to myself, maybe being at rock bottom is actually the perfect place to start.

I had never before thought of myself as a creative person.

I looked up, and I thought to myself, "That's it!

And sometimes I thought that, too.

(Applause ends) And then I thought, "Why stop there?

I now know that it wasn't until I let go of who I thought I was that I was able to create a completely new life.

It wasn't until I let go of the life I thought I should have ... that I was able to embrace the life that was waiting for me.

We thought of them as holy warriors who were taking the good fight to the ungodly communists.

He probably thought 9/11 was his greatest achievement.

I mean, I thought poetry was just self-expression.

And the most obvious one is to look at the sky, and so we thought, now what could they be looking at in the sky?

And it was this particular little behavior, the dance, that we thought was important, because look, it takes a pause every now and then, and then heads off in the direction that it wants to go in.

Now we thought, now what could be going on here?

And we thought that it could be a thermoregulatory behavior.

We thought that maybe what they're doing is trying to get off the hot soil and also spitting onto their face to cool their head down.

Who would have thought?

And this is the state that's commonly thought to be one of primordial harmony.

Hunter-gatherer peoples explicitly go through this train of thought, and will often raid their neighbors out of fear of being raided first.

Who would have thought that two young guys and a start-up would beat out Google Video?

Hours and hours of sitting with insurers and many companies and their thoughts about risk and how this is totally innovative, they'd never thought of it before.

So I thought, "Duh, Robin, this is the difference between industrial production and peer production."

And I thought the same thing myself when these came out, because our study had nothing to do with cheese or chocolate.

When this happened, a part of me thought, well, what's the big deal?

What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?

So, "give the X to the Y," that construction corresponds to the thought "cause X to go to Y." Whereas "give the Y the X" corresponds to the thought "cause Y to have X."

You can think of this as the language of thought, or "mentalese."

These are reminiscent of the kinds of categories that Immanuel Kant argued are the basic framework for human thought, and it's interesting that our unconscious use of language seems to reflect these Kantian categories.

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