Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

The constructive intellect genius produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

I know in 2003 we started thinking, man, if we just win out we can get back into the national championship and we kind of overlooked the biggest game of the year, which was the Michigan game.

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

I tend not to like change. I didn't understand the thinking. I don't like one small group telling another what to do. But if it's offensive, you've got to deal with it.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

I was flabbergasted that Chris Higgins played as well as he did. That John McCarthy played as well as he did. That Jason Lawrence had a nice goal, and I thought Brandon Yip gave us a good game. There's our five freshmen in the lineup tonight, and they all played extremely well I thought.

This was a horrible fact. Our thinking was that this would shock the entire world into realizing we had something that could mean the end of civilization as we know it, and that it would hopefully end our need for war.

Courtney has to get a little more mentally strong on the mound. She's played a lot of competitive softball, but she never got hit as hard as she's getting hit right now. What's happened is it's mentally bothering her. She's thinking, 'Why am I getting hit so hard' She needs to understand that in Division I, the (Nos.) 1 to 9 hitters are good hitters, it's not just 1 to 5 that's tough. Once she gets a batter on (base), and another, then there's a little bit of a breakdown, and mistake pitches happen.

I think when you reach this stage of your life, you're just looking for the traditional. It just seemed to put the finishing touch on the relationship. I never had children, so the thought of being a grandmother just blows me away.

The results frankly were a shock, ... We can see human fingerprints all over atmospheric methane emissions for at least the last 2,000 years. Humans have been an integral part of Earth's carbon cycle for much longer than we thought.

For whom, he thought, that splendor?

We resolved several big issues involving the company that many people thought would have been the end of the company.

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

I don't know what the driver was thinking. He didn't stop so about six or seven guys (on foot), fired into the engine block and finally the car stopped. Two women were hurt, and one was critical for a little bit.

Thinking of you. Sorry that the storm destroyed your home and school. Hope you are better and stay safe.

I tell him what Alan Hudson, another whose talent and trickery illuminated the 1970s, once said to me, that the trio of him, Bowles and the similarly blessed Frank Worthington did not collectively get as many England caps as Carlton Palmer. Yeah, ... I even had less than Ralph Coates. I played with him at Orient, when I went there after Forest. And I thought, 'How did you get any caps' I just used him as a decoy.

I'd got accepted to a seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but at the last second I thought, 'Ill just go to public school.' I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didnt think I was allowed to take it with me.

O'Brien is well-connected and probably knows what the thinking in Rome is, ... Officially, he's not speaking for the Vatican, but he's not speaking out of tune with the Vatican either.

It felt right, and we didn't care what anybody else thought.

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Everyone thought we were crazy.

It (the jobless rate) is probably at or slightly below the level the Fed is thinking is full employment, so it will strengthen their resolve to lean against inflation pressures. We expect another quarter-point hike in March.

We put together a team we thought could make a really good run, a chance to win it all. We thought we were playing well enough. A couple bad bounces here and there. Not to take nothing from Gwinnett. They're a hell of a team. They played well they deserved to win the series. It's kind of a shock. I didn't think I'd be thinking about the summer this early.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

She's a player I thought was about to explode. I could tell by the way she was shooting the ball in practice.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

We kept on telling him to get down. I didn't know what he thought. He wasn't going to return it 105 yards.

Man is a thinking being what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.

My Museum creates an exciting new space that encourages children to celebrate their differences. This exhibit will build on the goals of a previous exhibit, Face to Face, that occupied the Lehman Gallery. It will be a place where respect for diversity is experienced firsthand, modeled and taught in order to combat prejudice through critical thinking, empathy development and positive self-esteem.

I thought, considering we only have two returners from last season (Kari Rodgers and Cassie Sowers), they really stepped up and didn't fold under pressure, ... That says a lot for the girls who are young and don't have much experience.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Originally it written with a bunch of African American students but it was a little soft and I didnt feel like there was a threat in any way. I just thought it would be funny to have imagined the original Dukes driving around an African American neighborhood with that thing and then of course we thought. oh why don't we put them in black face, you know, after we blew the coal up at 'em and just really go for it.

Nobody lost their focus. All I kept thinking is we have to make history.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

Most teams, when we hit them with that run they don't bounce back. They stayed in there and they fought. They're a good team, better than I thought. McNally, he's a monster.

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

We're just knocking the heck out of the ball. My Achilles' heel is pitching, and it's a double Achilles' heel. It's just come to fruition worse than I thought.

I haven't given (the standings) much thought. Obviously, we have to look a little bit. I know about where we are.

Unfortunately the injury he suffered is a bit more serious than we first thought,

His conduct in the stands, I thought, was very reasonable. He was calm, and the result was a good one, in that he got back down onto the floor without an incident erupting. But it brings to light really the danger that you have when a player enters the spectators' stands, in that at that point, we lose control of the situation and anything could have happened. Fortunately, in this situation, it didn't.

If you change those rules you take that protection away and our thinking is a company may have to go out and protect themselves.

I believe in the theater I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

To-day you worked, you thought, in vain.

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.