Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

I just put it away because I didn't want to drive it too much and the car really didn't have any value or what I thought was suitable for what I considered it was worth.

After five years, we thought, 'Shouldn't we go the other way around and first reach out to people whose first music and language is Spanish' ... We are taking a 180 degree change of route.

Jose Antonio Reyes missed the game at the weekend, but his hamstring strain is not as bad as we thought.

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.

I think that's higher than nearly any other charity, even the United Way, which is thought do quite well.

When Lynn officially became a candidate ... we thought that he might put a stop to saying 'I'm just here to listen' and actually tell us what he's actually thinking.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

I do remember thinking, 'This is a strange way to make a buck. Travel around the world and people boo you wherever you go,' ... Night after night you just know they're going to boo. Then a few years later you do it again, and everybody acts like they knew it was brilliant all along.

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.

I loved being able to make a difference for charity just by doing something I like - playing golf. I had a blast 'marathoning' with my friends and found that playing 100 holes was easier than I thought.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person' I called my agent. 'Are they sure Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person.

If you look at what's performing today in Germany it's DaimlerChrysler as it looks like they are restructuring at a faster pace than the market expected, and this is precisely what the story is about for markets. Companies around Europe are restructuring, particularly in Germany, so forget who won the election, restructuring and reforms will continue to take place no matter which government is appointed, maybe not as quickly as thought, but still they are happening.

It went pretty well, but we finished a little earlier than I thought.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Going into the games, people know what we're going to do the Packers do what they do and have been successful doing it. It's one of those things if you can zone into a couple things during the week and run that until you're comfortable with it, that's when you take a lot of the thinking out of it, the mental errors in terms of plays and penalties because you're focused.

I was brought up as a strict Baptist and when I was about 14 I thought, I don't want to spend eternity sitting on a bloody cloud playing a harp. Utopia sounds good, but wouldn't it get bloody boring

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

When you hit the 50,000 number a lot more businesses start looking at you. Thinking that they can make a go of it here.

We were fully anticipating some price increases beginning this weekend. It appears that maybe the storm damage isn't going to be quite as bad as we thought. That would be excellent news for motorists.

When we went up early, I think we kind of thought that was it, that they were going to give up. You've got to take your hats off to them. They kept on fighting.

We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way that we liked to develop software, and to put the kind of energy into it that we thought was key.

Pure thought is itself the divine existence and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the reverence for life that he gives his own.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

Just to see what he thought, but I understand that things could change. I'm trying to learn a new role right now, so that's my focus.

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Jason pulled out in front to start with. There were a couple of guys behind him that I thought would challenge him. Toward the end, he developed a good lead.

Of course it can be frustrating. I went through a time when I thought, 'Why doesn't she retire Give someone else a turn.' But at the same time, that motivates me. When the field is weak, you become weak. When I do win a national title it would mean a lot more if she's there.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

My brother killed no man-his fault was thought,
And yet his punishment was bitter death.

When my new mom asked me what I thought, I told her that Ms. Vanessa could die for all I care. I thought she should have gotten jail for life or the electric chair because she starved us and almost killed us. And she can't repay us.

First-quarter results are now expected to be even softer than previously thought, and the year will be even more back-end loaded than we had forecasted, so the results are disappointing.

I really haven't given it too much thought. Any team that wants me, I'll gladly go. Especially a team like Green Bay, with the tradition they have, the fans they have, it would be unbelievable.

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.

We weren't rotating very well on our top two people. Then we changed to a 3-2, and that confused them a little bit, we thought. But the defense they didn't play was the one they've playing well all year the 2-3.

Watching it all come together was pretty amazing, I thought. The first three to four minutes, you are kind of like, 'Dude, what are you doing' and then in the last minute, it all came together. I've heard of finger painting, but only in the first grade. This was just amazing.

The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

This was not something we thought was going to happen to her at all,