Thinking Quotes

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

I think it’s important to make all women feel like they’re princesses, because every girl is a princess. I’m serious.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat.

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.

I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!

I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?

Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.