Thinking Quotes

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

I am a girl without game. I'm not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

You have to think outside the box.

I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself.

What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.