Thinking Quotes

• Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Faith

• I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

  

  William Hung
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Singing

• Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Alone
  • Talking
  • Loneliness

• I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.

  

  Alex Stamos
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Buddhism
  • Males

• I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Life
  • Marriage

• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Pushing

• Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • True
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• [In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Portraits

• People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • People
  • Bigs
  • Periods

• Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Mind
  • Said
  • Found

• I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

  

  Cullen Hightower
  • Thinking
  • Worry

• Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

  

  Wes Moore
  • Helping
  • Difficult
  • Realizing

• At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mad
  • Said
  • Rehab

• [Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mean

• I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Russia's order of friendship as the secretary of state.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Friendship
  • Order
  • Russia

• If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.

  

  Madame de La Fayette
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Time
  • Words
  • Understanding

• I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Process

• When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

  

  George Lloyd
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I definitely want to have a family without a doubt. I want to know that kind of love, and I'm definitely thinking about it. I'm not afraid to have a little baby bump on stage someday.

  

  Jessie Baylin
  • Family
  • Doubt
  • Baby

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