Think Quotes
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
Thomas A. Edison
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I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.
Eric Greitens
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You become what you think about.
Napoleon Hill
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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
Oscar Wilde
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I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go
Dan Dierdorf
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
Martin Luther
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You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
Elvis Costello
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Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
Coco Chanel
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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
Ben Aaronovitch
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
Carl Zuckmayer
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You can't think of nothing.
Eric Rohmer
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I feel like maybe I'm going to be in with the robots because they'll see the show Westworld and think I'm one of them.
Evan Rachel Wood
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I always think about where ill end up 10 years from now.
J Dilla
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I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
Jean Ingelow
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You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.
Anne Bernays
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People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.
Agnes Denes
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Sometimes you just close your eyes and jump... you don't think too long or maybe you just won't. Sometimes you just follow your heart, don't analyze too long, or maybe it might just be gone.
Carrie Newcomer
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I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.
Charles Dickens
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
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I put up a front to make people think I had all of this confidence in myself, which I didn't.
Ronan Keating Boyzone
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There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it
Charlotte Coleman