Thinking Quotes

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

I just think they look good on people. You spend a lot of time in the mirror looking at yourself when you have tattoos. Same way with other people. It just looks good.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.