Thinking Quotes

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.

John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.

Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.

It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

I think no virtue goes with size.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.