Thinking Quotes

• I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Crazy
  • Quiet
  • Beats

• I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

  

  Khalid
  • Mind
  • War
  • Moments

• I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

  

  David Bohm
  • Reality
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Given

• I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Ideas

• Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Thinking
  • Worry
  • Anxiety

• I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Thinking
  • Saying
  • Smiling

• We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Spiritual
  • Techniques
  • Deceive

• You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • People
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

  

  J. Tillman
  • You
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me - so long as it's something where I'm not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Long
  • Live
  • Beach

• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Long
  • Hate

• One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

  

  William Feather
  • Funny
  • Finance
  • Astute

• I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings is, then your focus must shift. No longer will you be satisfied with mechanical, physiological, neurological accounts. For this inquiry will require you to observe closely what human beings feel, sing, think, write and say to one another.

  

  David Roochnik
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Focus

• All of a sudden, I'm thinking, these guys Afghani men aren't so bad. I'm like the type of asshole where if you're nice to me once, I'm your friend for life. Sure, you hacked your kid's clit off, but you were nice!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Bad

• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Done
  • Death
  • Journey

• I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Detail

• As for meetings, I think the President-elect [Donald Trump] should be given an opportunity to first form his administration and assume office. Meetings will come next.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Opportunity
  • Office
  • Assuming

• I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Player
  • Period

• To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • Thinking

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