Thinking Quotes

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

~ Chris Carter

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

~ Eric Ries

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

~ Edward Gibbon

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

~ J. J. Abrams

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

~ Ezra Koenig

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

~ Meles Zenawi

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

~ David Tennant

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

~ Phaedrus

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

~ Jerry Saltz

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

~ Bill Maher

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

~ Michael Burry

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

~ Charles Kettering

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

~ Martin Heidegger

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

~ Evan Davis

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

~ Madeleine Albright

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

~ Dave Barry

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

~ Elayne Boosler

I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'

~ Alicia Vikander

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

~ Larry Miller

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

~ Jane Campion

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

~ Steve Jobs

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

~ Malcolm Forbes

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

~ Nancy Duarte

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

~ Thomas Sowell

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

~ William Shakespeare

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

~ Douglas Horton

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

~ Marcus Aurelius

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

~ Joyce Meyer

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

~ Nina Simone

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

~ John Piper

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

~ Avery Brooks

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

~ Anselm Kiefer

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

~ Alvin Lee

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

~ Eric Mccormack

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

~ Mason Cooley

I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

~ Charli Xcx

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

~ Jimmy Iovine