Thinking Quotes

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

~ Victoria Beckham

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

~ Jessie J

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

~ Albert Einstein

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

~ Henry A. Wallace

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

~ Elia Kazan

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

~ Alexis Carrel

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

~ Deepak Chopra

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

~ David Cone

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

~ Charlie Day

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

~ Mary Szybist

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

~ Alan Watts

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

~ John Locke

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

~ Kjell Magne Bondevik

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

~ Tadao Ando

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

~ Carl Jung

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

~ Virginia Postrel

We believe... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... that will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities.

~ Moza Bint Nasser

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

~ Randi Weingarten

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

~ William Glasser

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

~ Elizabeth Thornton

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

~ Carlos Castañeda

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

~ Joseph Altuzarra

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

~ Krista Tippett

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

~ Virginia Woolf

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

~ Tom Stoppard

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

~ Lester Holt

I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.

~ Theo James

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

~ W. Clement Stone

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

~ Bell Hooks

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

~ Simon Sinek

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

~ David Joseph Schwartz

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

~ Donald Rumsfeld

It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.

~ Octavia Spencer

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

~ Carlos Slim

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

~ Mark Burnett

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

~ Swami Sivananda

What would be better, that people build big houses thinking that they'll make capital gains or that they send their children to medical school and they do research on curing diseases? When you put it that way, it seems obvious. There has developed a sense of personal worth that's tied to one's house.

~ Robert J. Shiller

I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

~ Nathan Kress