The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

Most of the time it may seem like I’m staring into nothingness, but there’s a whole world playing out in my head.

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at...

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

Those ‘back burner’ thoughts, the ones the brain isn’t quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

It seems that we had…not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

When I think of you, I immediately think of someone else. That’s what I call love, and that’s why I never call you.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That’s usually a good sign to me.

I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.

Thinking outside the box’ is ridiculous nonsense, since whatever you can do in a ‘box’ or closed environment is not ‘thinking’. If I ‘think’ about a problem but limit my thoughts to certain dimensions –...

Look up at the moon; don’t think about yourself.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level...

It’s not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I’m making it: I just write songs.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

It doesn’t matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.

There’s no difference between a madman and a professor…it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it is very nearly impermissible to say, “Let me think about that” or “I...

Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!

What if deep down inside you…you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

When you think about the wasted time, you waste your time again.

We’re just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy – just like in business.

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

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...

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

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

I don’t know.” The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldn’t be, then...

Les idées sont le contraire de la pensée.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel...

All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.

I’ve got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I’ve got a galactic self.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, ‘I don’t know why I’m here, because I know I’m going to act and I know I’m going to America.’

Happiness is activity of soul.

Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can’t chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow deep down inside. You can’t chase away the reverberations or the memories that...

A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.

Americans have a warrior’s mentality, most of them. That’s how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!

The length of your shoe may change, the size of your pant may also change; but your life will never change until your mind changes!© more talks