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.

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...

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.

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.