Thinking Quotes

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

I'm constantly thinking.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.