Thinking Quotes

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to our community's welfare.

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.

I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently.

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as too artificial.

I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.