Thinking Quotes

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Universe

• I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

  

  Beth Orton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Ancient

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Period
  • Modern
  • Australia

• I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be open to feedback. But I do think 'politeness' is an issue that can hinder your work if you aren't careful. Kindness is important, but being overly polite - thinking you can't disagree with someone about your own work - be careful about that.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Work
  • Men
  • Important

• The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Best

• Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Mind
  • Passion
  • MMA

• I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

  

  William Hague
  • Different
  • Government
  • Britain

• We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Moral

• While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Great
  • Book
  • History

• I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Growing Up

• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Personalities
  • Developments
  • Independently

• You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Help
  • Kind
  • Knows

• I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Half
  • Giants

• I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody's going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Job

• I have this fantasy that in future negotiations over climate change - instead of going into that room and saying, 'I'm defending Chinese interests,' or 'I'm defending Australian interests' - there will also be an identity inside of each of the negotiators thinking, 'I'm also defending human interests.'

  

  David Christian
  • Future
  • Identity
  • Chinese

• 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

• If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • World
  • Color

• We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Style

• I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Live
  • Country

• Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

  

  John Breaux
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Team

• 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

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