Thinking Quotes

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.