Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

I haven’t been out in the marketplace in a while. I’m thinking about going back into it. I’ve got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But...

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let’s move it the other way: less of Washington, more...

Traditional ways to deal with information–reading, listening, writing, talking–are painfully slow in comparison to “viewing the big picture.” Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply...

What I love about photography, and it’s the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can’t be distracted, where you can’t be, like,...

We still can’t see you!” groaned Alice.”How do we fix that?” asked Melanie. “I don’t know…think visible thoughts,” said Colleen.”Think visible thoughts?” yelled Melanie. “Actually, that might work. Do it Izzy,

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing...

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think...

If you’re a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the...

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind.

My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I’m saying at this moment. I don’t know. It’s not something I’m obsessed by or think about...

You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems.

Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It’s a trap.

I want young women when they’re 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told…and have a sense of humor doing it.

In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.

leap upstairs” against their reason and try to find something which gives meaning to life, even though to do so they have to deny their reason.This was a solution Leonardo da Vinci and the men...

What gives you an edge AHEAD of every HEAD beside you is what your HEAD contains

Positive thinkers never allow fears to intimidate them because they have seen themselves succeeded already.

Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated...

You think too much.”I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches–a...

I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner...

His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?

Son of Manana.” Of course it isn’t accurate, because I’m the father of yesterday.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one’s own feelings or interests....

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn’t follow a continuous path.

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel’s nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15....

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you take a day off.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I’ve made movies all over the world… I’ve been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London – I’ve been in all these cities, shooting away in the...

A creature doesn’t move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn’t mean that the clouds part and I see God. That’s a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I remember thinking, ‘Downward dog’ is so not a resting pose!’ Now it actually can be.

philosophes qui ont pu autrefois se soustraire de l’empire de la fortune, et, malgré les douleurs et la pauvreté, disputer de la félicité avec leurs dieux. Car s’occupant sans cesse à considérer les bornes qui...