Thinking Quotes

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

But anyway I think you're bionic And I don't think you're beautiful, I think you're beyond it

I like to be daring and I like to be different. You think anyone out here looks like me? It's pretty different, right?

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

I don't need to publish anything to make a living, so to speak, and I think it is much more important to spread information about our European religion than it is to make money from doing so.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Do you ever do something, and then think to yourself: That's So Raven?

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.

I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.

Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you stand at the tipping point of your life. And on any one day you can change the future – through the way that you feel.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.