Thinking Quotes

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

I think the Shiites want a theocracy.

I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.

If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

That's the best way to live your life: Don't listen to what other people think. Just follow your heart.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

You ever make fun of someone so much, you think you should thank them for all the good times you've had?

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.

Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

I'm not as good as I want to be, But I'm twice as good as you think I am.

I think the audience likes to be entertained.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.