Thinking Quotes

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

You are what you think you are.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy

I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put it on in a club and just rage! Play it super loud!

Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

People don't think I'm big enough to be mean. I don't look big enough, but I am.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

I think of myself as a human being.

If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.