Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

I finished what I was writing, pressed 'send' and thought, 'Koufax didn't pitch on Yom Kippur,' ... And I haven't worked on Yom Kippur since.

We just got sloppy I thought, myself included. We were technically sloppy all over the field. Possessions where we had a chance to go forward we gave to them and lost out on opportunities.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

We had long discussions about this, because at the beginning I was a little bit reluctant, because I thought, 'Well, are people going to think that we've got a camera on Mars' and then, I thought, 'Well, people are far enough along. The audience is smart.' We want to show want show what the rovers are doing and we can't just have stills.

I've been throwing my blessings out the window for a long time. Now I'm around a lot of people. Some had very little before the hurricane, some had something, but now we all have nothing. It made me start thinking. They're all ready to start over and if they can do it, so can I.

Language is the dress of thought every time you talk your mind is on parade.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

I just thought, up and down the lineup, ... we wrestled tough.

The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.

After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect,

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

My soul is ravished at the thought!

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

I am surprised we don't have (a shot clock) now. America invented the game, but it now has spread throughout the world. My thought is we are headed toward an international game with international rules. I think we are headed in that direction and I would not be surprised if at some point we don't have a shot clock.

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

We thought, at least it's dangerous. And we were under the wing of two great managers -- Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp,

By far, the quality of the produce that comes out of the garden is 10 times what you get out of the supermarket. We're all organic. We take a lot of pride in what we do. We've gotten a lot of compliments from the staff, producing above and beyond what we thought would come out of here.

When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, What the heck did I do Texas in August, the chiggers, fire ants, rattlesnakes, uncomfortable accommodations' but I'm going to be sad leaving here, ... I hope people will say that the Camp Casey movement sparked a peace movement that ended the war in Iraq.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ... Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

What I remember is standing on the sideline, thinking, 'Hey, that's a pretty good trick. I remember the noise was unbelievable. You could feel it on your face.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

I would never even entertain the thought of going back to Morton. It's as simple as that. I'm not disappointed I've never been asked, and I won't be disappointed not to go back in the future. I believe you should leave people with the memory of your playing days, and too many people have tarnished those memories in the past by returning to a club and not doing well.

What we didn't have was a DNA that we really thought would be the future of Ford.

We thought, 'You know. Somebody's got to do something about it,'

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for HER, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.

I knew it was there. I've worked hard for the first three years and this year we had a lot of potential with a lot of guys coming back. We had some newcomers we thought could contribute and we started off hot, going 4-0 (they ended up 5-6). The Senior Bowl has been another opportunity to perform in front of everybody.

When you're in the state final game, there's no tomorrow so you might as well try everything. We thought, 'Hey, let's try the press. Let's see if we can turn it up a little bit, trap them,' and it helped us. We got a couple of turnovers, hit a couple shots. I just thought we came out with a lot of energy.

There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, I thought.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Fate There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent.

I never thought I could get a state title in baseball and somehow not get one in tennis. After the season ended, I thought, heck I'll end my baseball career with a state championship and go back to tennis and see if I can duplicate that.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

I'm one of those guys who put a lot of thought into the process they say they use, which is obviously a bunch of rhetoric. If you put the numbers out there, it just does not make sense. Every year there are two or three teams that feel as if they've done enough to justify their way in. It happens every year. Unfortunately for us, it happens to be us.

The basic thinking is that the advertising opportunity is better as a free service then if we had stayed paid.

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

I definitely don't feel like I've had the kind of season I planned on this year. No excuses. I've had some things I've had to face that were a little more difficult than I thought, but I plan on being on top at the end of this weekend.

I try to conserve resources with the thought that people dont start paying attention until later on in the race, ... Things wont heat up until after Labor Day.

I remember thinking, man, if you think that's problematic, wait until you stick around Washington a little bit longer.

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.