Thinking Quotes

What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.

You mean you don’t know? (Wulf) No. In fact, I’m thinking right now that one, if not both of us, needs to put down the crack pipe and start this night over. (Cassandra)

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

I am always thinking music.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

I'm always thinking ahead, and I'm always curious about what's happening next. I thrive on that kind of thinking, so I don't burn out.

If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

Even with or without the show I'm always thinking of the next thing. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. That's kind of been the story of my career.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.