Thinking Quotes

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Light is time thinking about itself.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

It is so.When YOU think so

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

We tend to get what we expect.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

I always think that the project I'm working on will be the best.

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win.

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.