Quotes About Thinking

The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world out there.

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch.

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

I think the implications for the rise of China are huge in terms of the political landscape, economic balance, de-velopment thinking, and the environment.

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

At the beginning of a project, we need to disrupt the psychology-driven dash to a premature conclusion by disentangling means and ends and thinking carefully about what exactly we want to accomplish. Frank Gehry's question, "Why are you doing this project?," does that.

For the most part, our educational systems remain rooted in the outdated and fractured Prussian model, which teaches people to take orders rather than think for themselves. Paired with the technological advances in communications, we are left swimming in an ever-engulfing sea of facts, unable to find meaning, never mind wisdom.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

The only way to get it is by breaking the shackles of the old thinking that says there is no alternative to unfettered capitalism. We've got to upend the lie we've been told for decades, the one that says: This is how the system works. This is how globalization works. This is how capitalism works. This is how employers and employees will always relate to each other. There's nothing you can do about it. So just shut up and get back to work.

Wenn man auch die Fähigkeit nicht hat, über einen gewissen Grad von Mitschmerz hinaus zu fühlen - zu denken und zu berechnen vermag man es doch, daß die unfaßbare Jammerquantität vorhanden ist -" "Das vermagst du und ein paar anders -, doch die meisten denken und berechnen nicht." "Denken nicht," wiederholte er. "Gott sei's geklagt, das ist an allen Übeln schuld: die meisten denken nicht.

Io credo alla dolce violenza che la ragione usa agli uomini. A lungo andare, non le sanno resistere. […] Il pensare è uno dei massimi piaceri concessi al genere umano.