Thinking Quotes

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.