Thinking Quotes

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.

I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.

I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and we thought.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.

I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

I think America is on the right track.

I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.

There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.

Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.

Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'

We need to start thinking collectively as a people about what we should be looking at.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be.

We believe we can't attract to ourselves what we want because we think we are separate from God, and whether we are able to manifest anything is dependent upon whether God wants us to do that or not.

What you think and do affects all other people.