Always think backwards before moving forwards

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it – may be not about the characters, nor about the piece,...

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, “Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?” The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are...

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

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.

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don’t even know the difference). I’ve never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it’ll happen.

Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Your thoughts are transparent.

Sabía que mi madre tenía razón, pero eso no cambiaba mi manera de ser. La gente siempre cree que demostrando tener razón puede hacerte cambiar tu manera de pensar.

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God gradually tends to become less real to them. It is not so much that any single finding undermines their faith; rather, the day-to-day practice of thinking in naturalistic terms about academic subjects makes...

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicitymake up for what we’d lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together?Could we lose each other just to get even?

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn’t that make life a story?

Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately....

I was thinking about that, about what lines you’d be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.

Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.

My head phones always allow me to listen to myself

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Why try to have pigs flyWhen ducks already can

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

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,...

If you thought of it, don’t be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die… I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to...

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack.

Sometimes to comprehend one’s message you have to use mirror or a water.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

Language expresses people’s thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.