We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the ‘Real Housewives’ or ‘Jersey Shore.’

Education is not life planning, it is life.

I’m Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I’m like the coolest guy in the world.

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.

I am not able,” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I’d go to NYU film school and see if I could make a...

Le jugement du corps vaut bien celui de l’esprit et le corps recule devant l’anéantissement. Nous prenons l’habitude de vivre avant d’acquérir celle de penser.

When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.

Nothing great ever happens from thinking small.

Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life – the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ…I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming…

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left...

The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at...

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of...

Elevate your thinking and you’ll levitate to greater levels

pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings–the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought. Just as the ideas of cells...

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, ‘Oh, maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make it to Broadway by the time I’m 40!’

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car.

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love — for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.

Life is difficult.

Dreams are possibilities, cherish your dreams.

I haven’t left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I’m incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back...

Naturally all of us don’t think we deserve very much. We don’t believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent...

But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

… in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience …

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

We don’t spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That’s a really negative and backward way, and that’s not how I want to live.

Most of the time, when I’m writing, I’m writing for myself. I’m thinking, ‘What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?’ I create individuals so real to me,...

Question authority… Then ignore it!

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven’s sake. They think...

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

Thinking doesn’t pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Sometimes to comprehend one’s message you have to use mirror or a water.

Weil das Denken die Richtung verändern kann.

The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn’t that make life a story?

I do, not because i think, but I Feel!

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he...

What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.

.you can have little and be rich..