Thinking Quotes

• I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

  

  Scott M. Gimple
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Together

• Orthodoxy and orthopraxy are both important and are both things that Jesus spoke to, but I no longer believe that either of these things belongs in the center of our circles. I think that spot should be reserved for the exact representation of love: Jesus. By erasing my central pursuit of orthodoxy and orthopraxy and replacing it with Jesus, the essence of love, I realized that perhaps Jesus was inviting us to pursue something even better than right thinking or right doing: he was inviting us to pursue a heart that is constantly increasing in is capacity to love.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Trying
  • Done

• The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Opinion

• Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking

• In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • City
  • Sex

• Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Nice

• Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

  

  William Magee
  • Feelings
  • Persons
  • Mistakes

• I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

  

  Aron Ralston
  • Thinking

• You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Thinking

• It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Communication

• The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Goal
  • Inspiration
  • Pray

• I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Thinking

• I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • People
  • Believe
  • Spirit

• I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Society

• Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Opinions

• For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'

  

  Kevin Young
  • Good
  • Black
  • Culture

• Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Eyes

• I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • God
  • She
  • Hope

• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Drawing

• There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Job
  • Small
  • Perspective

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