Thinking Quotes

I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

What are you thinking about? What you focus on right now will tend to come into your life a little later. Here's your reminder to change your mind.

I just think that only God will judge a person's heart.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

When we pray with our hearts and our souls I think we are being heard.

After a hard day, try to think of something good about it before you go to sleep - the result may surprise you.

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well