Thinking Quotes

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.

I lived for music since I could think.

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.

I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.