Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

When I was told my number was going to be retired, my whole career ran through my head, ... I first went to the Forum as a 17-year-old and I retired at 35. I thought, 'Wow Now I'm going to be with my friends Jean Beliveau, Guy Lafleur, and all the guys who have their sweaters retired, and mine is going to be up there.' It's something so special.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Ximinez Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- four counts. Do you confess; Wilde I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez Ha Then we'll make you understand Biggles Fetch... THE CUSHIONSBiggles Here they are, lord. Ximinez Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- two last chances. And you shall be free -- three last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.

Every time I hit a bad shot in February I was thinking,

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

We have to involve the parents because we have to change the thought process and behavior of the whole family. The family has to come along for the child to change.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

She responded maybe even better than I had anticipated. I thought it was important for her to get some quality minutes and as things played out, I wanted to give her more. I had gone in thinking maybe 12 minutes, and she played 17 minutes.

The thought is not to poke this in the eye of Calgary, saying we're the homophobic center of the universe, and now we have to prove the opposite,

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Thinking of the long season, it's better to hold him out than to risk injury. I don't know if (his absence) was a factor, but obviously not having one of your starters out there can hurt you.

Habits of thought persist through the centuries and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

Go back to Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith and those guys. They weren't 230- or 240-pound backs, but they did it every week. So I'm thinking, why can't I do it ... In due time, we'll find out.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

We had just come off of making 2003's 'Train of Thought,' which was a very heavy album,

Many adults, especially men, somehow lose that ability to spontaneously embrace, something as children we do without thinking. But then you'll see men hugging in the most unlikely of places - football fields and boxing rings. These guys, who are supposed to be the most macho, are also the quickest to put their arms around each other, signaling, 'We're friends. Now, I'm gonna kill ya.' Still, it doesn't really count as a true hug.

My sister was really inspirational, ... She and Greg were out there training for events. So, I thought, 'Why don't I get out there I can't sit on the sidelines forever.

He conveys the poetry, the natural rhythms, of his characters' speech. Everything - emotion, movement, thought, intention - is inherent in that rhythm. Actors sometimes like to dissect, to analyze, to do all those things actors are taught to do. But those things don't put me closer to this work's heart. I have to surrender all that. It's like going to a lake or a swimming pool. You just have to dive in, to immerse yourself. Working in his plays requires a different kind of skill. It's as if you would become a talking drum.

As she gears up to run for President, it's a broader stage, and these issues matter in a way that perhaps they don't when she's in the Senate. That's bad strategic analysis that is being passed around as common knowledge, and I think it's false thinking.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

I thought he was OK.

The market is in a 'show-me' way of thinking right now. The savings sound great, but it's hard to gauge how realistic the 4 billion number is, for this year.

Hopefully it's true. He tries to never have a negative thought. But last year, I even admitted, I was surprised to see the power numbers come back the way they did that quickly.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

The idea that he has to move left is a ludicrous, inside-the-Beltway type of thinking, coming from people who want to do him harm, ... I'm confident the administration will ignore that advice.

Initially the market thought going offshore was risky and that there were limited growth prospects in the developed world, but on closer inspection we have seen that the outlook is better than thought.

The prescription drug plans were able to negotiate discounts and rebates that came in larger than we thought, and this has helped mitigate what drug spending would have been. It doesn't mean drug spending won't continue to grow, but it has helped to temper that growth.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

I did a lot of thinking about not playing much. I know myself and I know I am pretty determined. I knew maybe I could go through a year and sit on the bench, but I want to come in and be the man. I want to go in there and have the high stakes and be well

He's improved incredibly. I think we're all surprised he got so far because there's other very talented youngsters who I thought would make the break before him, but he proved us all wrong.

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future, ... It's a big relief to discover what you are best-suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus. You can just jettison all this useless floundering around, attempting to do stuff that's really not in your range, and focus.

I thought that might go.

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Everyone's got an intuition about the risk of everyday life. We thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if we could quantify it' And once you begin to do that, you realize that everyday life is not benign.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

In a few lines of poetry he captured one of the great contradictions of the world the heroism of people doing something, even knowing it was a crazy something. And he showed how the establishment has used music for thousands of years to support its way of thinking.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

I just tried to stay focused, thinking about (Tim) Wakefield last night being able to come back from a five-run deficit and get a win,

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Literally, while I was writing, the town eccentrics were looking over my shoulder, asking about what I was writing, listening to my explanations, offering their two cents. It had gotten around town pretty quickly that what Walter was doing inside his house could be viewed easily on a computer. I thought, 'This is more interactivity than I can stand' But it was interesting too.

The odds of death go up dramatically among babies who use adult beds. The numbers are gigantic, much higher than I had thought. It's the best data available right now.

This is my last year, I'm going to take that shot. All I was thinking was I needed to get the ball up. If I get it up, I'll make it.