Thinking Quotes

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

I think I’m his biggest fan. Like, I’m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. I’m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

I think that period dramas just need zombies.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Think not I am what I appear.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.

I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

You can't think and act like a victim and expect victory.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.