It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything...

I guess coming after ‘Country Grammar’ and everybody thinking, ‘Well maybe, that was it.’ To come back with something like ‘Nellyville’ and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that...

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children’s decisions.

My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.

I remember thinking, That’s what I need – and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

I come away from a gig thinking, ‘Yeah, I’m worth something.’ I can still do it and entertain people, and that’s worth it.

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...

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme —...

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...

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.

How you see shapes how you feel. How you feel shapes how you think. The combination of how you think and feel shapes how you act. Self-help is mostly aimed at the thinking and feeling...

Constraint inspires creativity

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I...

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

I have a long view of history – my orientation is archaeological because I’m always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

I tried to think outside the box but couldn’t open the lid.

I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an...

There’s a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You’re not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It’s a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with...

It is not good thinking – either at the corporate level or at the personal level – to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

If I didn’t know you I would say I don’t know you.

…most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others...

I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Every new thought of mine is like my child. And as soon as it is conceived, I must abandon it. I might return to dote on it later, or I might try to strangle it...

Pensar es el mayor acto de rebelión.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people...

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you...

When I’m in turmoil, when I can’t think, when I’m exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It’s just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk...

One step actually taken achieves more than a lifetime of planning.

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don’t leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

World’s biggest Miracle OR Magic is Zero.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I’d far rather see for myself what’s going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell...

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can’t go to my school cause they’re not smart enough.” I come round the counter then. Lift her chin up and smooth back her funny-looking hair. “You think...

Most of the time I’m thinking, I’m glad that scene was improvised.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it’s hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes...

Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!

I don’t know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

I swear, I didn’t really go in thinking, ‘I’ll be the Simon Cowell’ of ‘Top Chef.’ I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and...

You need to manage your expectations. You’ll live longer.

The pondering heart is a thankful heart.