Thinking Quotes

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Rather than thinking to build, build to think.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV. They tell you where the dominant culture's values are - and they're not vegan!

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.