Thinking Quotes

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

Our thinking makes our life.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking "Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?"

I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!