Thinking Quotes

• What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Simple
  • Mistake
  • Wise

• American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up in a bubble of privilege lulled into thinking this country is a true meritocracy.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Checks

• I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Necks
  • Sweetheart

• If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Surrender
  • Surrender To God

• In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of collectiveness and reignite a collective vision, and I think that's something you can do effectively through art and music, and through writing and entertainment - and just through like, pop culture. It's about spreading ideas and making people think differently, essentially.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• I've got a friendly smile, a greeting smile, and a you-know-exactly-what-I'm-thinking smile.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Thinking
  • Smile

• I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Community
  • Chinese
  • Track

• Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis... I never think about [stop vulnerability], because the point about a technical barrier - and I've studied the technical aspects of the market for a long time - is that the market shouldn't go there if you are right.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Determined

• I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Life
  • Done
  • Die

• Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Innovation

• The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Reading

• In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Thinking

• I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Work
  • Character
  • Stop

• Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Forward

• Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Rules

• I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Freedom

• People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Desire
  • Validation

• Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Achieve
  • Hung

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