While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

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...

Always think backwards before moving forwards

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

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...

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

I forgot what I was going to think.

When they are all thinking alike, they aren’t thinking at all.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very...

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

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

l’espace de l’esprit, là où il peut ouvrir ses ailes, c’est le silence.(chapitre XXIII, dernière phrase)

Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

Ty nevidíš na dálku?!””A co sis myslela? Že jsem dokonalý?””Ehm, no… jo.

Poirot,” I said. “I have been thinking.””An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD – the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

There’s nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

The author indicts “our culture’s rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction” and counters with the value of “the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together...

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that’ll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

I am qualified for it”; they think of things as possible.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I’m thinking, He’s not talking about the movie.

Dolly,” because not only is the Everyman a sheep, but he’s also a clone. They all think alike and act alike.

be in the right place at the right time,” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Each “way of thinking” has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

I could not think without writing.

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...

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

As a comedian, I don’t know if they’re laughing because it’s funny or if they’re laughing at me because I’m not funny. And I’m thinking, ‘Who cares? They’re laughing.’ If you go on stage, and...

Time spent thinking about life is better spent enjoying it.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That’s what is kind of cool, or...

Wasn’t it what her father always warned her about? Don’t jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to?

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am...

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it’s good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things...

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx’s doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I’m rightwing.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.