Quotes About Thinking

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

Is it a lack of faith to be thinking that we're all going to be slain or captured and sunk into the Hot Lake?" asked one of the four chosen archers. "Yes," snapped the Carp.

Most of us have little training in listening. We are far more efficient in thinking and speaking. Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love.

Creative thinking, working with your mind, that's my number-one prescription for longevity. If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Well-determined centers of revery are means of communication between men who dream as surely as well-defined concepts are means of communications between men who think.

Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.

The habit of reading is absolutely critical today, particularly for Christians. As television turns our society into an increasingly image dominated culture, Christians must continue to be people of the Word. When we read, we cultivate a sustained attention span, an active imagination, a capacity for logical analysis and critical thinking, and a rich inner life. Each of these qualities, which have proven themselves the essential to a free people is under assault in a TV dominated culture.

You always use that word remember,' said Milena. 'You say, remember, team. You never tell us to think.

None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

Time drags only when one is thinking fast.

I'm going. A lot is possible. The weather's nice, Captain. Look: such a beautiful, solid, rough sky -you'd almost feel like pounding a block of wood into it and hanging yourself on it. Only because of the hyphen between yes and no? Is no to blame for yes, or yes for no? I'll have to think about that.

Few men think; yet all have opinions

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world! Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

When you think you just lack words, what you really lack are ideas. Ideas come in the form of frames. When the frames are there, the words come readily.

Because language activates frames, new language is required for new frames. Thinking differently requires speaking differently.

Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.

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.