Thinking Quotes

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

We don't think of ourselves as a dynasty. I really hope some of my grandkids will be actively involved in politics.

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.

I think the main thing that we have to do is try and train ourselves to remember from moment to moment that God is living within us and within everybody else, and just trying to remember to see that.

Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.

I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.

I guess that's the business of devotees - to make you think of God.

Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work.

On a good bargain think twice.

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

I'd shake his hand, but I think that's what's holding up his pants.

I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

I really do believe 2012 is coming. What do you think about that?

World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.