Thinking Quotes

What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

I acknowledge that I have no idea who the hell I am, and I think that's the first step.

We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.

I think women are often taken for granted.

I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.

There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.