Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring

He was so much better of an athlete than people thought. Back then, he wasn't heavy at all. He was solid as a rock. He was faster than anything. He would hit the ball back to the pitcher on two hops and beat it out at first base. He was incredibly fast. We used to play basketball in the mornings at the YMCA. Kirby was a great basketball player. People think Kirby was overweight when he played, but he was rock-solid.

When the surgeon went into the joint it was nowhere near as bad as they first thought.

As ever, the input price data is an energy story, and the fall in the sterling price of oil in the last month is coming through a little quicker than thought,

Living in solitude, eating lightly, controlling the thought, word, and deed ever absorbed in yoga of meditation, and taking refuge in detachment.

Currency appears to have had a slightly more adverse effect than most people thought. If that's the case, it's not as bad as it looks on the top line. Obviously currency is something out of their control.

I think they charged me about 20,000 for it. The kids sort of thought it was fun, because there were animals in the barn and so on.

I'm going to go with my read. What tipped me off was, if he had a real hand, he would've bet 30,000 or 40,000. But when he bet 50,000, it's a huge amount, and I'm thinking, 'He really wants me out he doesn't want to make it easy on me at all.' It led me to believe that he didn't want me to call at all.

You've got to be prepared for anything, but I'm not too worried about it trade deadline and haven't given it much thought. I'm still of the mindset that I'm playing almost every night and that's great.

Instead of being now a small, little sleepy town, we have an opportunity to grow real quickly. It's going to take some commitment. It's going to take some out-of-the-box thinking.

You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, And then fix it in form.

We're not doing so much with schemes. I just want to let 'em play. I don't want 'em thinking, just to play football.

I had not seen such passion or fervor from the president since two days after 911, ... His force, I thought, was impressive and I am re-thinking the issue.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

They have people that leave, for what they call their leave period and sometimes they don't come back, ... Typically these are new recruits, typically coming into the unit, who wanted to do something for their country but they decided, maybe this is a little bit crazier than I thought.

I realize the car we bought didn't have as much gas as I thought. When I started to drive the car, I realized some of the parts were missing.

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.

Our equipment we thought was fine. But when you get out there and start fighting it for 20 or 30 hours straight, equipment starts failing. And so we need a lot of repair on some of these older trucks.

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.

He's the only guy I've ever played where you hold serve to go 1-0 and you're thinking, 'All right, good. The amount of options he has to get around any particular stage of the match seems to be endless. He can elevate his game at any time.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free No That's a thought I'll never endure Never.

It blew up before it hit the water. I thought, oh my God, it's Christmastime and what about their families

I felt that, all things being equal, he'd go back to Boston. As the process went about, reading the newspapers, seeing that their offer was at three or four years, I thought, 'I have to personally talk to Johnny myself.' I thought we had to bring this to a halt, not let this drag out.

He did not accept permanent minority status for House Republicans, and that was a very different way of thinking. He helped get them there and keep them there.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

The way the applicants were sorted was a mix of backgrounds that we thought was necessary to design this public input process.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people smile.

but it also made me full of self-doubt and self-loathing because I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I'm not worthy of this kind of attention. I have no talent.'

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought.

I think it's obvious, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we are faced with some formidable challenges. It's difficult to go forward when you are ejected from your home venue. ... First and foremost in our thinking is that we want - in every way possible - to conduct our event in the state of Louisiana.

Men of thought should have nothing to do with action.

I think our pitching was great. Actually things kind of flip-flopped a little bit. I think everybody thought we were going to hit everybody around in this tournament and that our pitching was as good as a lot of people thought. Our pitching did a very good job, and we just fell short. It wasn't lack of pitching at all.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Life with fools consists in drinking with the wise man, thinking.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on

I had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters who could hold an awful lot inside, and I thought it might be cool to go back and do something kind of external and showy, ... I also have rarely played an entertainer, and certainly have rarely played a celebrity, so to tap into those two parts of my own personality, I thought, seemed like it might be kind of interesting.

I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a few bad days in practice. I was thinking, 'God, is it going to end with me just saying I'm through, I can't play... in a Thursday practice' I just thought, 'I'm sore, I'm tired, I can't make it to Friday.' And sure enough, I come back Friday and have a good day.

Now, he gives me a hug. I see his hands and arms with all these marks and tattoos. I'm thinking, 'I'm hugging the anti-Christ.' But then he said, 'Sharon and I thank you. We had a great time.' And he walked up to everyone in the TV booth, everyone on the crew and said, 'Thank you, I really had a great time.' I'd never seen anybody do that before.

We probably got more out of him than I thought.