Thinking Quotes

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

I think with every writer there are two people there.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

I think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they're victims to their own insecurity.

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?