Thinking Quotes

• I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Family
  • Phones
  • Appreciative

• I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Mean
  • Agree

• I enjoy being a student and learning. I don't think you should ever stop being a student. That's where the most creative ideas come from. Teaching is a blessing as well because I get to share what I've learned and my passion for creative movement with people.

  

  Derek Hough
  • People
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Dream
  • Inspire
  • Nightmare

• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • End

• New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make - he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Laughter

• The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Goal

• I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Band
  • Artist

• I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Free

• When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Training

• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

  

  Debbi Peterson
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Die

• I'm obsessed with the customer. I am the customer. I really don't think you can go wrong if you don't take your eye off of that. Serving the customer. How does she feel? I feel like the fashion industry has cared a lot about how we look but not about how we feel.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Fashion
  • Eye
  • Feels

• The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Funny
  • Television
  • Laughing

• Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Breathing
  • Buddhist

• If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Gratitude

• 2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement rather than as an experiment.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Thinking
  • Financial

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