Thinking Quotes

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.

I can't put into words what I think about anything.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.

The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.

All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special cases, we're all equal.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.