Thinking Quotes

He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Hey, Hachi People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it--- but I think, you only really recognize it... when you see it a second time face to face. -Nana Osaki

People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

I think a singer is an athlete. I've always tried to stay fit. Until my knee said, "Uh-uh," I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don't like walking a lot, but I'll push them.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.