Thinking Quotes

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.

When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she'd lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States.

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

As You Think, So Shall You Be.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

I think the most important thing about holding a concert is to enjoy the moment, rather than showing off.

I think of language as our first music.

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

If I want to do something powerful or special, then I contact people I think are smart, educated, inspiring and I'll say, "What are you doing? How can I help?"

You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.