Thinking Quotes

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.

I think a myth is created from truth.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.

I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

Don't think it, ink it.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.

I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk.

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!