Thinking Quotes

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

I just wait because I think people will find me. And I’m not the kind of person who will knock on somebody’s door. I wait. If they’re good for me, they will come towards me.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Now I can tell you something dirty. I like men who have a foot fetish. I absolutely think it's the most charming thing. It's just so romantic.

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Change your thinking, change your life.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.