Thinking Quotes

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.

I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed.

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

I was just a kid. I think I stole a candy bar. I remember feeling so terrible. It was the worst shock. I was probably 7. That's my least favorite feeling: guilt.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10.

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.