Thinking Quotes

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

You know, he's a bit of a rock star, but I think he's consciously learnt how to make people feel comfortable around him. Because otherwise, how could anyone act opposite him? The whole time you'd be thinking, 'My god, it's Johnny Depp!'

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.