Thinking Quotes

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Earl Nightingale

Time, Deep, Enjoy

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
John Bradshaw

Life, Truth, Pain

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Single, Writing, Words

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

Courage, Rather, Clear

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
Chief Joseph

Peace, Men, Alone

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Jerry Brown

Control, Media, Foundation

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason Cooley

Time, Food, Amazing

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt

Others, Order, Follow

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth

Living, High, Adore

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf

Experience, Single, Body

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres

God, Power, Mom

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.
Katy Perry

Love, Good, Girl

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
Oliver Stone

Through, Thought, Between

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership, Help, Personal

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering

Time, Tomorrow, Yesterday

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
Layne Staley

Down, Whatever, Listen

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll

Again, Question, Answer

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert

Almost, Result, Misery

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
Mason Cooley

Universe, Read, Rest

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Men, Everything, May

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
Sachin Tendulkar

Time, Far, Ahead

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Henry A. Wallace

Power, Different, Play

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto

Life, Art, Together

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins

Life, Mistakes, Feeling

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
Max Muller

Time, Best, Beautiful

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber

Confusion, Lead, Minutes

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
Dean Kamen

Stars, Engineer, Percent

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis

Life, Morning, Future

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
Garrison Keillor

Girl, Nothing, Hard

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Enough, Start, Possible

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