Thinking Quotes
Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.
I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.
Im always thinking about what I might want to do next, but theres still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.
I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.
Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.
At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.
It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.
People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.
When you're timid, you're just thinking of yourself! Think of the other person - put him at ease, get him a drink.
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.
I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.
There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out.
But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.
I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.
One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.