Thinking Quotes

• Kant stated defensively that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith,' but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not 'denied knowledge' but separated knowledge from thinking.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • President

• What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

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

  

  Dave Rowntree Blur
  • Men
  • Drinking
  • Hobbies

• I think that the world is really in very dark ages. In America this could have never been showed, we are even more lost over there than in Europe. We are very lost!

  

  David LaChapelle
  • World
  • America
  • Age

• We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • Thinking

• A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Art
  • Kind
  • Artist

• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • May
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Bad
  • True
  • Space

• I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Thinking
  • Understanding
  • Opinion

• I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • President
  • Passionate

• You bring your children onto this earth thinking, 'Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I'm gonna be good and that they'll be okay.' But it's like, every day we're worried, 'Are we gonna be good?' Things change constantly, so you just gotta push, and you gotta work to the core.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Job
  • Jobs

• I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Good
  • Home

• Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Thinking

• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Illusion
  • Technological
  • Hops

• In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Movies
  • Hero
  • Kill

• I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Book
  • Die
  • Kind

• I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Big Book

• It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • World
  • Free
  • Funny

• Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Suffering

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