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Quotes About Thinking

Certainly to me it has been valuable to have to think through the basics of physics in order to present them in a halfway coherent form for a course. That has led me to ideas in research. Even freshman physics leads to thoughts that lead to other thoughts that are stimulating.
~ Jim Peebles
How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come . . . with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.
~ Janette Oke
WHEN YOU INVEST, your mind has a mind of its own. At the very moment when you are most convinced of your own rationality, you may be feeling rather than thinking your way toward a decision.
~ Unknown
You must do the thinking for the reader of your resume.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
God's Word changes people, changes their thinking, changes their decisions, and changes their behavior. Change is an important matter to nouthetic counselors. The Scriptures everywhere anticipate change. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of change. His activity is everywhere represented as the dynamic and power behind the personality changes in God's people.
~ Jay E. Adams
See that's the thing about men and sex. Thinking doesn't usually enter into it - Luther That explains so much - Grace
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
All our current media concerns have in French the suffix '-aire': identitaire (issues of identity), sanitaire (health concerns), securitaire ('law and order'), humanitaire (humanitarianism). The whole lot being publicitaire (promotional). There is in this suffix something which quite aptly characterizes our culture as funerarium of received ideas and single-track thinking.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Estoy solo en medio de estas voces alegres y razonables. Todos estos tipos se pasan el tiempo explicándose, reconociendo con felicidad que comparten las mismas opiniones. ¡Qué importancia conceden, Dios mío, al hecho de pensar todos juntos las mismas cosas!.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
All through the meal Mr Horsfield talked without thinking of what he was saying. He was full of an absurd feeling of expectancy.
~ Jean Rhys
I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
~ Mark Twain
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
~ Tobias Wolff
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
~ Ayn Rand
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
~ Al Goldstein
Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.
~ Warren Mundine
The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.
~ Don Tapscott
Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.
~ Lewis Black
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
~ Edward Tufte
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
~ Harold Ross
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
~ Aasif Mandvi
I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.
~ Adam DeVine
I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.
~ Barbara Kingsolver