Quotes About Thinking

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

A 'biomass' man does not use logical and analytical thinking

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

In her broadcasts, speeches, and newspaper columns, ER would challenge conventional thinking about women and work. "Isn't it a fact that women have always worked, often very hard?" ER asked an audience in 1936. "Did anyone make a fuss about it until they began to get paid for their work?"10

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Robert Heinlein once put it . . . Man is a rationalizing animal not a rational one.

During their personal interview, Exman asked Schweitzer about mysticism. He was particularly interested in how intellectual puzzles that have vexed our ordinary minds for years can be answered "in a flash of illumination, after we had ceased to struggle with our thoughts." Schweitzer replied, "All deep thinking ends in mysticism," before arguing that mystical experiences are surprisingly common, by no means confined to "the privilege of a few.

Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don't just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!

It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

So if all what I've said is the definition of insanity then the next thing is how do you define an evil bastard? People can mix evil and insanity up, thinking both to be the one and self same thing…wrong! Let me tell you about evil, first you smell it, secondly you feel it, thirdly you taste it and finally you need to destroy it.

You cannot give out a negative frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

Certainly that thought did not enter into McClellan's calculations. He continued thinking only in terms of how much he might salvage from defeat.

Negative thinking is something we all do. The difference between the person who is primarily optimistic and the person who is primarily pessimistic is that the optimist learns to become a good debater. Once you become thoroughly aware of the effectiveness of optimism in your life, you can learn to debate your pessimistic thoughts.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.