Thinking Quotes

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

Shoot what you see, not what you think.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

There’s a greatness in not caring what people think

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.