Thinking Quotes

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

I believe that the most dangerous drugs that there are right now are the drugs that are legal - Over-the-counter medication. I think the entire healthcare system promotes the use of these drugs.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself.

I guess I am going to think about freezing my eggs.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

When you have a child who has special needs, you really start thinking about children across the board with special needs.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

The biggest challenge is people thinking you know everything going on in your company, because you're at the top of it and you started it. But the thing is, nobody knows everything about anything.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and hydrate.

I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Think, just blink and I made...a million rhymes. Just imagine if you blinked...a million times. Damn, I'd be paid...I got it made.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.