Thinking Quotes

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.

I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.

I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.