Thinking Quotes

• I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Tears
  • Weak
  • Hopeless

• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Good
  • Swings

• Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Thinking
  • Logic

• I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.

  

  Cain Velasquez
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Small

• I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Priorities

• I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Hope

• Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Words
  • Balance
  • Walking

• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Listening

• I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Good
  • Health
  • Joy

• The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Form
  • Female
  • Males

• What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Wave

• I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Great
  • Way
  • Should

• There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Thinking

• With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Thinking
  • Realised
  • Matured

• I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Future
  • Responsibility
  • Responsible

• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

  

  David Zucker
  • Up
  • Serious
  • Inspired

• I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Travel
  • Location
  • Etc

• Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Immigrants
  • Considering

• The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

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