Thinking Quotes

• There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Humanity

• A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Thinking
  • May

• Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

  

  Kevin James
  • Dream
  • Respect
  • Self-respect

• Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!

  

  Wanda Landowska
  • Blessed
  • Century
  • Unending

• 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

• I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Important
  • Money
  • Lost

• Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Small

• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Music
  • Scene
  • Swimming

• Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Thinking
  • Easy
  • Positive Thinking

• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Day
  • Play

• My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Enough

• We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

  

  Matthew Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Thinking
  • Fool

• I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Thinking

• Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Art

• What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • Important
  • Business
  • Brain

• I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.

  

  Dave Rowntree Blur
  • Men
  • Drinking
  • Hobbies

• If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.

  

  Arthur Carhart
  • Perspective
  • Wilderness
  • Mentality

• I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Time
  • Men
  • College

• Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Work
  • True
  • Culture

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