Thinking Quotes

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

I was always thinking, 'One day I want to be like Bernie Williams.'