Thinking Quotes

• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Community
  • Moving
  • Legacy

• People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Guy
  • Excellence

• After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they’d cleaned out an armory. “I think we have a problem, Dmitri.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Done
  • Gun
  • Coffee

• We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Thinking
  • Becoming
  • Findings

• The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

  

  Sara Rue
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor

• I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Singing
  • Arms
  • Instrument

• I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Song

• The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.

  

  William James
  • Attention
  • Consciousness
  • Rough

• 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

• When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Looks
  • Romantic
  • Paradise

• I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

  

  Judy Blume
  • People
  • Writing
  • Kids

• Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Feels
  • Taste
  • Thousand

• I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.

  

  Viola Davis
  • School
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Freedom
  • Changing
  • Conviction

• The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.

  

  Mike Watt
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Abstract

• We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • Thinking
  • Behavior
  • Context

• I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Artist

• To learn is to change how you think.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Thinking

• I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Thinking
  • Perfect

• The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not be so good.

  

  Neal Baer
  • People
  • Character
  • Complicated

• All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like...10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Fun
  • Player
  • Records

• Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Thinking
  • Heads
  • Permaculture

• I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Danger

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