Thinking Quotes

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

Some of my best thinking is done by others.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

Many times when people leave churches we think it's a doctrinal issue, but most of the time it's a leadership issue.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.

We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.