Thought & Thinking Quotes (5716 Quotes)

I was not scared I was just thinking, I have kids, I have a ten year old daughter that walks home from school.

Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

Distributors will send demos so that we, as employees, can try them out, so that we can say 'I've played this' and this is what I thought.

Under Saddam, if you agreed to forego your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK. But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation where anybody can do anything they want to anyone.

I thought I would put it in there because you constantly see celebrities all the time in celebrity magazines and TV shows and the public almost follows them in a worshipping kind of way. While everything else in the exhibit is more spiritual or related to religion, this is a pop culture piece that I thought would show how spirituality is something that is applicable to everyday things, especially in our culture.

Even the founders seem taken aback. I don't want to say it's overwhelming, ... but I see these numbers coming out, I keep thinking, it must be a mistake. How can we pass Google I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

I was feeling pretty good walking down that line and shaking hands with all of them. Baseball was no big thing to me. I figured anybody could play, but couldn't anybody make a movie. That's the way I thought.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

I thought, 'You're coming to a team that just won a championship and was five minutes away from winning another,' so your question is how receptive will they be to what you want to do,

His game, I thought, was right on the money, and he just didn't see the results. When your game is good, results usually follow, whether it's team-wise or individual.

My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
"Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,
A dearer birth than this his love had brought
To march in ranks of better equipage;
But since he died and poets better prove,
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.

Power thinking is a method for changing our beliefs about aging. ... It's changing negative, limiting beliefs to positive beliefs, so our thinking and speaking reflect a positive approach and strong belief in what we're able to do and achieve as we age.

I was thinking, 'Thanks goodness we had a cushion,' because we did have some breakdowns. All the credit goes to Duke.

I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands Where's this, where's that Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm.

He's certainly a hard worker, ... a real classy guy, as everybody knows. Certainly, he was comeback person of the year to be able to bounce back and play the next year after reconstructive surgery and play well, so you hate to get a setback on something like that. You just have to see to what extent. Our first thought is always to protect him and what's best for him.

I haven't had as many chances here as I would have liked or would have thought. But why the other guys haven't played well here, I don't know. It's a course that, if you play well, it can suit anybody's game. I just don't know why we haven't put it together. It's hard to say, because we've all had decent chances.

Rural development must be considered a strategic national objective, one supporting a global objective of economic prosperity. The challenges facing rural communities require, from all of us here today, a level of innovative thinking, risk taking and leadership that is no less important or potentially worthwhile than those in earlier times.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I think some of us came in overconfident, thinking we could just walk on the court and win. In the final four, it's not like that.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural worlds, beautiful and varied. He prefers them to the concrete and hard worlds built by other men. Ideas blossom very quickly, and then they are very painstakingly realized and evolved. His many harvests of thought go on and on, and the origins emanate from things as simple as a golden bluebell. Like a positive parent he gives love at the moment of creation, bowing to the beautiful things that he originates.

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

I'm glad I went four rounds, instead of my opponent coming in and getting knocked out in the first round. He's tough. I hit him with a lot of hard shots, and he did not go down. A couple times I thought, 'Man, what else do I have to hit him with

I remember finishing that book tour thinking, 'Is there not one woman in this entire country who's happy with herself and feeling good' That was a little depressing.

He was the best quarterback we thought could help us right now, ... He's a real good fit for us. And the fact he has experience allowed us to look at tape -- we watched every one of his plays since Monday night -- and we feel very comfortable that we know what we're getting.

Harry Callahan I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question Do I feel lucky Well, do ya punk