Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

Language is the dress of thought.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

After a year in which IBM and HP threw everything they could at us, including old products with new names and new products with 'super' names, we still took market share away from them, ... This time we're tearing into what those re-branded mainframe makers thought was their safe haven -- continuous up time, round-the-clock availability, and investment protection -- and bringing it to customers who understand the value of a dollar.

There is actually a thought out there that the Korean who did test positive, tested positive because he failed to properly process a therapeutic use exemption. I don't know if that's a fact. Appeals come after the event.

I thought, for whatever reason, our spirit was broken in the third and fourth quarters.

He speaks with such economy of words. It is the mark of a really brilliant person who is so clear in his thinking, so precise in his thinking that he can communicate very complex thoughts in just a few well-chosen words,

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

One merit of mathematics few will deny it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, eipi -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit 'God eternally geometrizes.'

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.

I love the thought of our audience watching the show and wondering about a song they heard,

God is with us to be utilized. His Power, His Love, His Thought, His Presence must be at our disposal, like other great forces, such as sunshine and wind and rain. We can use them or not, as we please. We can use them in proportion to our ability.

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.

When you're a GM or a personnel manager or assistant GM you're already in the basketball world. Which isn't the world of dealing, of business, of thinking how this fits with that. I wanted knowledge that went to another level. I wanted a statistical side other people don't have.

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

This is something that we thought was happening, and that we have been concerned about. But no one had ever documented before how poor fitness actually is across the population in the United States. What we found is pretty worrisome.

I sent it to my friends, and I sent it to my husband. I just sent it to people who I thought were speeders.

We just didn't take care of business. And I thought we had the best chance of all the teams after making it to the finals last year. This year was just a different season. Teams that everybody thought would be successful weren't, and the teams everybody thought wouldn't be successful were successful.

The decisions used to be so much easier, the course of action so much clearer. There was obviously the right thing to do. When did the right decision become so clouded How did it become so blurred and why for that matter What should I do and how do I wanna play this The thinking mans dilemma.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

As these milestones approach, we can expect there to be increasing violence from the terrorists, ... They can't stand elections. The thought of people voting is anathema to them.

I really don't give it that much thought. A lot of people talk about it, and they saw how difficult it is to do. I just go out there and I work hard.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Business is business and business has to be run as a business. It has to be on paper. Business can't be hocus-pocus, or wishful thinking. You have to understand your market.

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

Feed on her damask cheek she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights alluded to Plessy v. Ferguson , the notorious 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal ... The legacy of that thought is what we saw at the Superdome.

The more I work on his pieces, I find that their fundamental life energy is irresistible, and it increases. It's such marvelous music, with such personality, thought and care and detail. We have a number of very marvelous composers, but to see Elliott at this age so enthusiastic, wanting to do it and being able to do it, is amazing.

,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

If I want to walk I use my legs, if I don't want to walk I don't use my legs. Exactly in the same way you can use the mind logically if you are trying to know about matter. It is perfectly right, it fits there. And when you are moving inwards, put it aside. Now legs are not needed thinking is not needed. Now you need a deep silent state of no-thought.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

I have given the subject of executive compensation a great deal of thought and planned to announce a reduction in my own compensation, as I had previously suggested,

Death followed by eternity ... the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

If the time comes and he's the best option, we'll adjust our thinking.

I don't remember us ever being in a situation where I thought we had it won, then lost it, thought we had it won, then lost it. It was really an amazing game. It's a shame any of those kids had to be on the other side of that. I would think in the 21 years I've been at Connecticut, I don't remember more than one or two games that turned out like this.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

When we got the news about Charlie, we sat there, looking at each other and thinking, 'OK, what now' ... We realized we may not totally agree on everything, but there are too many plusses to our relationship.

With decades of experience in network management, Sean, Gary and Jim are intimately familiar with the old way of thinking a secure network equals a secure environment. That approach simply won't get the job done in a world where 70 percent of the vulnerabilities reside in the applications running across those networks. These executives work extremely well together and provide an outstanding balance of industry knowledge, business and sales expertise. They are helping Security Innovation break new ground in the market, extend our offerings more broadly and fuel our steady upward momentum.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Thinking happy thoughts is not the way to cope with the stress of having cancer.