Which is more valuable into showing how I think: the order I think of things, or the order in which I arrange them once I’ve thought of them?

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I’m lying in bed I think up stories. That’s where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while...

Mother’s intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don’t imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr. Merrill was a man who took to wallowing in guilt; his remorse, after...

You will always be the answer, when somebody asks me what I’m thinking about.

Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can’t...

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Thoughts not only manifest into reality,they define it.

Our thoughts is what our life make it

Can you go cazy without knowing you’re crazy?

I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I’ve got to think.

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps...

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my...

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

My head phones always allow me to listen to myself

There are enormous dangers in thinking that the world online is the world as it exists, that what you get from your one stroke on the Internet is all there is to know.

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of...

Your thoughts are transparent.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.

Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the...

And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl…there’s a little voice that say, ‘I wonder where he would go…’…if it hadn’t been for his head…

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn’t quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren’t such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when...

If I can hit No. 1 on the ‘New York Times’ best-seller list, I’m thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

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.