Thinking Quotes

• Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Emotional
  • Eternity
  • Difficulties

• But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Legacy

• I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Mirrors

• We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Done

• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Evil
  • Interest
  • Sorry

• I think a lot of the Trump supporters think that the job situation is not good.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Thinking
  • Situation

• I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Tomorrow

• You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Thinking
  • Foolish

• Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Helping

• Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and there were frogs and turtles. You go back there and it's dead now. The forest you went to, now there are bulldozers, now it's a strip mall. These experiences of beauty followed by grief affect us more than learning that CO2 levels are now 400 parts per million.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Grief

• Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

  

  Everett Reimer
  • Way
  • Busy
  • Schools

• I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking

• I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Audience

• Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking

• I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Emotional

• Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Reason
  • Stuff

• If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Proud

• I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• [You should] see everything about your life as a lesson. Ask, "Am I empowering myself?" Even for a tiny thing, like if you're in the grocery store and you're thinking, "Should I buy that?" And your gut says, "You know you can't eat that." If you decide not to listen, you've harmed yourself by blocking your intuitive voice.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Thinking
  • Empowering
  • Block

• How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge

• Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Thinking
  • Danger
  • Chosen

• Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Greatness

• Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Sports

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