The thing I’ve learned is that thinking is not writing.

The best way to guarantee you have a job tomorrow is to not finish all the work your boss asked of you today. Wait, that’s not right. Sorry, I’m thinking like a government employee again.

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.

Give me another Chance Then, You will Get Less than I Gain…

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I’ve worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and...

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Il se servait de son esprit comme d’un coin pour élargir de son mieux les interstices du mur qui de toute part nous confine. Les failles grandissaient, ou plutôt le mur, semblait-il, perdait de lui-même...

My dad said to me a few years ago: “There’s no harm in thinking.” We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.He said, “You...

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro’s question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’?

…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking’s no good, is it, madam? Thinking won’t help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, “come along, Ellen! Stop it...

It is so important to think for yourself.

It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad...

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, ‘This has all gotta be important!’ I would just underline the whole...

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was...

Why should things be easy to understand?

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i’m Dreamer.

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was...

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning...

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience–any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there – and bigger.

Money isn’t everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile…I don’t know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in...

There’s less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level – forget about the media – than ever before. We’ve never needed people to think more critically than now, and they’ve...

Owl,” said Rabbit shortly, “you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest–and when I say thinking I mean thinking–you and I must do...

Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your...

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that...

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I’ll stay after class for another hour or two and go, ‘Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were...

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

‘The Machinist’ changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of… nothing. Just… standing still....

A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or...

A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.

Thoughtlessness—I try not to think about it.

words make some unique ; words destroy some

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

You can always get exactly what you dream of.Think and dream big.

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about

The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mindabout nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.