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.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits…

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn’t want to think about”― Bob Proctor

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly.” from the video “Carl Jung speaks about death

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different...

‘3:10 to Yuma’ was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however,...

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn’t done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

When my internal voice goes external, and I’m in a noisy crowd, I can hardly hear myself think.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to...

Good, don’t think. Thinking is highly overrated.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more...

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of...

I want a big breakfast,” said Fuchsia at last. “I want a lot to eat, I’m going to think today.

Thinking is an act of time, not a trick of mind.

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought...

[…] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

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.

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.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a...

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you...

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

It’s hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I...

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

I’m not a robot. I’m a freak of the universe … a thinking animal … and I’m trying to see my way clear through this morass.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by...

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can’t really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

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.