Thinking Quotes

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

~ John Green

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Your fear comes not from what you're afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happen. You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future. What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you….

~ James A. Murphy

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.

~ Bryan Lee O'malley

The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.

~ Linda Elder Richard Paul

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

~ Criss Jami

Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

~ Stella Payton

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

~ Stella Payton

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking, free from all beliefs and superstitions, we all make difference.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

~ Donald Miller

The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at your head’s peril. The only safe thing to do is to find a way of getting your mind into his, wherein yours has room to expand and grow, and explore the worlds his contains.

~ Denys Turner

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.

~ Richard Mitchell

When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the frostiness of darkness. (All the words he always wanted to tell her.)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

~ Rachel Klein

i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.

~ Sanober Khan

A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke,Another one bought from the store.If he lights one, his mind's lit upAnother one burns a hole..

~ Sanhita Baruah

And then, like most of the times she went down that road of thought, things started lighting up. Rays filtered through the smog like tentacles – and a quite intangible hope infected the darkness with its resolution. She never knew where these urges to 'move forward' came from. Their source eluded her – but she knew they were there somewhere, just as mysterious and uncontrollable as the darkness. Treacles of light had unwittingly penetrated these dark alleyways in her thinking. Illumination came slowly, but it was undeniable.

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

~ Sol Luckman

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

~ Stephen King

Happiness is activity of soul.

~ Aristotle

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that —just dreams, just play. She’d been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn’t, because she would never escape her need to love him.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I am not where bodily I stand or sit; rather, I am where my thoughts carry me. Where my thoughts are, there am I; and frequently my thoughts are where my love is. That which naturally delights, or is by habit pleasing, comes to me quickly. Hence You Who are Truth itself, have plainly said: 'For where your treasure is, there is your heart also.' If I love heaven, I think willingly of heavenly things. If I love the world, I rejoice at the happiness of the world and grieve at its troubles. If I love the flesh, I often imagine things that are carnal. If I love the spirit, I delight in thinking of spiritual matters. For whatever I love, I am willing to speak and hear about.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Think you can and you can do it.Your thoughts are your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I dwell on positive and beauty of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

~ Joel Osteen

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

~ Brandon Sanderson

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

~ Albert Einstein

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

~ John Godfrey Saxe

There are diverse styles of learning, problem solving, and a range of methodologies that a person can draw from in order to structure their thoughts or intentionally revise ingrained personal habits including both systematic and unsystematic approaches. Problems solving styles are reflective of personal differences in the manner that people prefer to position themselves in respect to the phenomena in the world and efficiently react to alterations in the external environment. Problem solving strategies encompass numerous variances in what manner a person approaches new concepts, how they manage their daily affairs, and respond effectively to new opportunities and complex challenges.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

~ Ted Agon

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

~ Ted Agon

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

~ Ted Agon

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

~ Ted Agon

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

~ Ted Agon

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

~ Ted Agon

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

~ Ted Agon

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

~ Ted Agon