Thinking Quotes

• It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Thinking

• Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • American
  • Political

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • House
  • Fake

• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Myself
  • Doubt
  • Self

• I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Thinking
  • House

• When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Wife

• Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Saturday
  • Liar
  • Liars

• I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

  

  David Cone
  • Up
  • World
  • Athlete

• There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Remember
  • Crazy
  • Singing

• I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Up
  • High
  • Deep

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• I am popular with certain people, but I'm still blocked out of the establishment. I hate that incestuous world. It makes me sick. It's impossible for anything truly original to get done. Thinking is not allowed. It's all PC. It is so horrible because it is a fossilized, parasitic version of Sixties philosophy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

  

  David Lipsky
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Song

• I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Want

• The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.

  

  Dean Heller
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Why
  • War
  • Perspective

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• (Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Thinking
  • Military

• I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Culture
  • Wanted
  • Catholic

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