Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace.

To let Vince Carter flop two calls and get the whistle to end that game, I was disappointed because the effort and energy of (the Nuggets) I thought should have been stood up for. Vince Carter flopped both of them and got the call. There was a rumor out of the league office that we're trying to take flopping out of the game, but I don't think that was orchestrated in those two calls.

I remember thinking, 'Gee, they just go home and get better,' ... But the human model is they do a lot better with rehabilitation therapy. So that's the direction we're going.

With the higher energy prices, the economy overall has stayed stronger than we would have thought.

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

We're in the process of exploring Broadway. The biggest challenge right now is there's no theatre this season. The thought is in case something closes, if we get a shot at it this season, we would go in. If not, the talk is that we do it in the fall.

A sect or a party is an elegant incognito, devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz said part of his band's enthusiasm for the project came from being able to teach a new generation about punk heroes like the band they covered, New York's legendary Gorilla Biscuits. It's a band that we grew up on and thought was really cool, ... It's definitely influenced Fall Out Boy, so it's definitely cool to be a stepping stone for that band for people to check them out.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

There was no interest at all. My friend asked me to go, so I did. He must have been tired or something, because he didn't speak a word. So I thought, 'What a boring guy.' I actually left pretty early.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

We have a lot of very loyal customers that come to us for just about everything that they need. We're always talking to new acts about touring. It's not something that we thought was going to be a bread-and-butter for us, because being in Austin, we just don't see the same amount of big acts coming out of here as you would in L.A. or New York or Nashville. Those SR companies are going to get the first pick of the big acts that are going to be out touring and we accept that. But we're always talking to see what we can get out on the road.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 900 a.m. and 300 p.m.

But when he couldn't even touch his knees, I thought, Yes This guy needs me.

I had been leaning to Mississippi State for a (while). I was going to give every team a chance to make an impression. I liked the other teams, too. I wanted to do my homework. When I went up there (to Starkville last weekend), it just confirmed everything I thought.

Awareness is experiencing from moment to moment. Reason acts quickly in awareness, a thousand times faster than thought, and you do not even notice it is operating.

I think things went comparatively well today (Friday). The market has said and (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has said that the recovery is another quarter away, that it's going to be the third quarter, not the second, which is what people had been thinking.

It's not a ridiculous contrast it's more a man hiding a secret and being a little smarter about how he projects himself than we thought.

The anarchists are right in everything in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a.

I wonder what Piglet is doing, thought Pooh. I wish I were there to be doing it, too. - Winnie the Pooh

Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

We must keep to the orientation of serving the people, and socialism, and the principle of letting 100 flowers bloom and a 100 schools of thought contend and highlight the themes of the times while encouraging diversity,

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

I switched six years ago, thinking I'd only last a month or so, but it's just been the easiest thing.

It worked out the way we thought. It helped us in the fact that we were headed in the right direction offensively.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

I think that's a shift in thinking too. You just have to do something. You don't have to be a fanatic you don't have to do three hours in the gym.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination ...

It was a major tune-up instead of what they thought was going to be a minor tune-up.

Coach always tells us we have to find a way. It's what we have to do, instead of thinking what we could do if we had this player or this player. Nobody expects us to win any games from here on out, so we just have to plan on a lot of upsets.

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time ... the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Is there a difference from last year Absolutely. Last year he'd come in and you could see him, in his head, going over formations and plays and trying to think, 'Where am I going What am I doing' Now, he comes in and calls the play and knows what he's doing, how to do it. He's not thinking, he's reacting.

I think cost-cutting is an element of Fox thinking, if you listened to Rupert Murdoch's last few diatribes to Wall Street, ... The costrating benefits equation didn't make it onerous to let him go early.

O Fame if I ever took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

I knew there were two guys interested. Two guys that I thought would be possible candidates to interview. After four weeks we were told that we shouldn't interview them. That was my list. My list had two guys.

That was my thought. I lost my concentration on trying to make the shot. I was trying to be creative instead of getting the 2 points. I thought that could be a play that could get us going in the right direction.

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.