Thinking Quotes

• But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

  

  William Wycherley
  • Thinking
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Want

• It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must do in the interests of the country, which put you in such position, such post as the Head of the Russian State.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Important
  • Country
  • Political

• Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Experience
  • Problem
  • Emotions

• The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

  

  will.i.am
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Should

• The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Stills

• I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Cute

• I think it's necessary when you're dealing with a dark show that has explosion and violence to have defined moments of lightness and humor, even romance. It's important, and it deepens the character, of course.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Dark

• I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Done
  • Pain
  • Moving

• I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Sleep
  • Nervous
  • Trading

• I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Grief

• Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

  

  Adam Conover
  • Thinking
  • Generational
  • Reductive

• I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

  

  David Bowie
  • Kind
  • Poet
  • Prose

• Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Men
  • Attitude

• Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

  

  William P. Young
  • Heart
  • Belief
  • Accepted

• How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking
  • Reason

• It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Running

• All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • People
  • Men
  • Poetry

• When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Song

• I think with actors, we tend to get rid of characters - and not get rid of them as in discard them or throw them away, but it's just that you take that jacket off because you're going to be putting a different jacket on.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I really believe that actually Ahmadinejad undermines Iran far more than he enhances Iran's status. And I think we have to go back to what FDR said, you know, speak softly and carry a big stick. I think Iran under Ahmadinejad, they speak loudly and carry a small stick.

  

  Karim Sadjadpour
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Speak

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