Thinking Quotes

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.