Thinking Quotes

• I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.

  

  David First
  • People
  • Certain
  • Dresses

• I think that, as a woman, it's much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Thinking
  • Focus
  • Yourself

• You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I'm secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Beautiful
  • Light
  • Attractive

• The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

  

  Ethan Nadelmann
  • Government
  • Guilty
  • Prohibition

• I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Winning
  • Perspective
  • Tennis

• One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Reason
  • Gentleman
  • Appearance

• You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing school plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • School
  • Play
  • Busy

• I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Judgment
  • Written
  • Common Sense

• It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Writing
  • Deceit
  • Dishonorable

• There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

  

  Willie Parker
  • People
  • Choices
  • Ignorance

• I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Achieve

• Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Walking

• I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Actors

• A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Thinking
  • Flower
  • Solitary

• A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

  

  Rex Stout
  • People
  • Feels
  • Process

• I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Impression
  • Punk

• But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • World
  • Coffee

• I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Mean
  • Ends
  • Doe

• Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them.

  

  Bert Hellinger
  • Soul
  • Greater
  • Seeking

• It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Faith

• There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility, because our ego is always going to block that guidance, and so you ask for humility.And the second thing you're going to ask for is courage, because what you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Ego
  • Humility
  • Bigger

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