Thinking Quotes

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

~ Dan Rather

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

~ Dr. Seuss

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

~ P. J. O'rourke

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

~ Kelsey Grammer

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

~ Jimmy Fallon

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

~ William Gilbert

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

~ Carine Roitfeld

I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.

~ Daniel Tammet

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

~ Horace

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

~ Alia Bhatt

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

~ Don Knotts

It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

~ Damian Marley

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

~ Steven Sinofsky

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

~ Jaron Lanier

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

~ Herbert Simon

I see little girls at my meet-and-greets who are like, 'Kelsea! It's my first concert and I came to see you.' And I'm thinking, 'I don't want to post anything online that your mom would be mad at me for, because you're important to me.'

~ Kelsea Ballerini

I'm very quiet. In the beginning, my brother would play the piano, and I would sing, because that's what my mom and dad did. And then along the way, somebody teased me for even thinking that I could get up there. That stayed with me, and I became very shy.

~ Tyka Nelson

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

~ Esther Dyson

When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.

~ Sam Yagan

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.

~ Denise Van Outen

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

~ David Lynch

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

~ Jim Carrey

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

~ Albert Einstein

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

~ Thomas Paine

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

~ William S. Burroughs

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

~ Tom Rath

Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

~ Pankaj Patel

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada.

~ Ryan Gosling

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

~ Peace Pilgrim

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

~ John Lennon

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

~ Amy Winehouse

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

~ William James

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

~ Summer Sanders

We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

~ Tahar Rahim