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Quotes About Thinking

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
~ John C. Maxwell
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
~ Nina Simone
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ James Baldwin
Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.
~ Thiago Alcantara
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.
~ Dennis Prager
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
~ Ayn Rand
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
~ Edward de Bono
'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
~ Florentijn Hofman
For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own and make their own assumptions.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
~ Ray Bradbury
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
~ Toni Morrison
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
~ Valentino Rossi
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
~ William Glasser
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.
~ Pierre Omidyar
It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
~ Alcaeus
I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.
~ Julia Sawalha
I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.
~ Preity Zinta
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
~ Ethan Coen
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
~ Claude M. Bristol