Thinking Quotes

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

To change your reality, simply stop thinking like that.

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.

For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?"

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success."

The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.

I think we close our psychic field so that we can protect ourselves from the vast and unpredictable energies of the universe.

I think the Westerner approaches his path through his mind. I think the Easterner approaches, largely, although not exclusively, his path through his heart.

I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their heart center about God.

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.

I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.