Thinking Quotes

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I like people who are powerful, confident, and fearless. Balmain is about an attitude. I think if Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were alive, they would definitely be part of the Balmain crew.

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

One thought fills immensity.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.

Positive thinking breeds success.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood.

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.