Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

For so many of our clients in New York everybody this summer wore flat shoes... then all the sudden autumn hit and everybody thought, 'Oh my, I am back in my high-heeled shoes and I have to adjust myself have to how I am going to be able to walk around the city.

Everybody's back that we thought, and that's great because we had a great season last year. Of all my time coaching track and field, this is the most athletic team I've coached. They're stronger, faster and more coordinated.

Hand water daily for six to eight weeks when you first plant. A lot of people put plants in thinking sprinkling will be enough. Sprinkling won't catch the feeder roots, and the plant's going to go crispy.

That's the first thing I thought. Walter was probably more flashy with his style, but they both have the same toughness. And they both hit the hole. If he doesn't make you miss, he's going to make you hurt. I love that.

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatre.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things

Unethical deeds don't occur out of a desire to do evil, but because of a lack in thought process.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Thought creates character.

I don't know what Jack was thinking, but we were just looking to potter round the course and make some cash. It never struck me he might have a chance, but there were fans on the 1st tee shouting at him to 'make it six Nicklaus had won five Masters at this point in '86'.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

I just saw him kick it one time and I thought, well, they're going to be more concentrating on trying to get the guy at the plate. I just kept running.

I just thought, that's what you did -- you sang in a voice that was appropriate for the song. You wrote music that was exciting to you and incorporated any style you liked. That shaped me as a musician and has been the key to my longevity. I accepted that music as the Bible.

Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought.

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

The thought is they are together.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

The reason for the pause was sufficient to sacrifice the progress that we would make in one single day of recruiting ... to refocus the entire force on exactly who we are as an institution and the fact that we must represent that insitution both in word, deed, and even our very thought,

I thought, especially for our league, the fourth quarter was a great quarter. They saw a little bit about what NBA basketball is about great plays by great players.

I'm trying leave the program in better shape than when I joined. We want to keep the Canadian pride alive. Thinking back, those years were the best I've experienced in baseball. And I've gotten more out of the game than most that wore that wore the Maple Leaf.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

The most important thing to me, in terms of thinking about the issue of impeachment, is to recognize that the Constitution does place a value on continuity. We don't want to have a situation where you make a single error, and you're exposed to an impeachment proceeding.

I must have had four calls that night. J.P. thought we could sign Ryan, but he needed some flexibility.

I think the Congress finally has succumbed to the very infectious virus of bigness that began at the beginning of the century, when we first heard about big business. After a while we heard about big government. Then we began to hear about big labor. This whole bigness idea has intruded itself on the thinking of the country.

We were very excited with the senior-laden team we have. They've been pointing to this for quite a few years, thinking they had an opportunity here, and they really took advantage of it today. They really stepped up. We have six school records going up on our board next week.

I was Olivia Newton-John in my lounge room for sure. I guess at the time, without even knowing it, she was a massive, massive influence, ... And do you know, she's still amazing. She came to see my show in Sydney, and I was a bit nervous thinking, 'Oh, Olivia Newton-John's here'

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

The ankle feels good, ... I did a lot of work on it. It took a lot longer than I thought. Its something that took most of the summer to rehab. Its coming along good. I feel good on the ice. I have to look forward to this year.

It's a little more bullish than I thought. I thought they would err on the side of being more conservative.

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

No sign nor countersign have I,
Through many lands I roam
The whole world over far and wide,
To exiles all at Christmastide,
From those who love them tenderly
I bring a thought of home.

Before I knew it, he was on my bumper, ... I thought, Man, I wish he would have had a harder time going through traffic.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

One of the things under consideration is the extension of those programs. And the thought is that by extending the programs those people will be reached.

Descartes said I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

I've always been a big sports fan, and when I'm hanging out with my friends we always talk about sports, so I thought, why not put it on the air It's just two guys who are very strongly opinionated about their ideas and we talk about it.

I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

I stayed away from it for years, thinking that there were many, many better guitar players than I and that I should stick to what I do best, the writing and singing, ... Rick didn't want to budge, and we argued about it almost every day in the studio. I p

When we started planning this two to three years ago, the reports we were seeing about an upcoming physician shortage did encourage my thinking. But we also have many more hospitals in my system that want to have our students than I have students to place. The only way to add more students was to increase class sizes.

One time somebody asked me what Woody and I talked about, ... You know, we didn't talk that much. We didn't have to. I knew what he thought, and he knew what I thought.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

I would question whether he'll play. You know, I've seen miracles before, so I'm not going to say for sure he won't. He was running around there last night, I thought, interestingly well, but not in the scheme of things. I don't know if he'll dress or not.