Thinking Quotes

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

People don't really think other people are the same.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

I try to think professionally that my body is my job and just get up and do my modeling work, you always feel better after it.

It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.

The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.

[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

I happen to believe, and I think many others do, Donald Trump is probably the great public speaker in those large arenas since William Jennings Bryan.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I write to find out what I think.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.

Even hating myself I still think I'm better than you.

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody

I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

I don't care if people think I'm a junkie or a loser.

I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

I would love to maybe shoot a movie or something, but end goals: I just want to play a superhero. I think that would be so much fun. I'm putting that energy into the universe for sure.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.