Thinking Quotes

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

I think the best advice I got is that acting isn't acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react.

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

We are not as strong as we think we are

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a Darwinian explanation.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.

The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.

Umm thanks for the phone. I think I already broke it.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.