Thinking Quotes

• This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Break
  • Addiction
  • Boxes

• I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Thinking
  • Spirituality
  • Devotion

• Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Thinking
  • Days
  • Spend

• The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Action
  • Model
  • Revolution

• I think I know how to raise a kid. You just play catch with 'em. You just talk about life, and you distract them by throwing the ball. They don't even notice that you're filling up their heads with your theories.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Kids
  • Balls
  • Fatherhood

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Band

• I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

• Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Couple
  • Healthy
  • Obsessed

• I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Real
  • Cutting

• When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that 'Sit Here and Cry' is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske's reel, I knew he was going to get it.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Music
  • Song
  • Energy

• No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Thinking
  • Alone

• I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • God
  • She

• I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Film
  • Waiting

• In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Thinking
  • Society

• I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that's a pure, organic process of learning from someone else's mistakes.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Giving

• One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Party
  • Church

• What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Government

• I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Rooms

• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Different
  • Done
  • Mass Destruction

• America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country.

  

  Van Jones
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Experience

• My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

  

  Apollonia Kotero
  • Work
  • God
  • Beautiful

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