Thinking Quotes

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

But all ladies think they weigh too much.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

We're kinda always writing, so it's like we're always thinking about what's next, so that'd be a yes. We're always constantly wanting to get onto the next thing or the new thing.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.

When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.