Thinking Quotes

• What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

  

  William John Wills
  • World
  • Trust
  • Expectations

• People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Moving
  • Suffering

• I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Secret

• The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Style

• When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Fate

• I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Speed
  • Phenomenon
  • Composition

• Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Up
  • Enjoy
  • Regret

• Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Taken
  • Successful

• Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Thinking

• I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • People
  • Life
  • Flavors

• Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Long
  • Why
  • Character

• I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Crazy

• Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Thinking

• I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

  

  John Carney
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

  

  William James
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Experience
  • Girl

• I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Different
  • Environment

• I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Speaking
  • Urge

• A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Thinking
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Decision
  • Criticism
  • Inevitable

• I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • Thinking

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