Quotes About Thinking

Gamache had patiently explained, over and over, over the years, that he was doing something. He was thinking. It had taken Beauvoir years to see the power of pausing. And of patience. Of taking a breath to consider all options, all angles, and not simply acting on the most obvious.

Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I'm thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon. I wonder how many of them haven't got any eyebrows?

Everyone is so bloody keen on me thinking all of a sudden. It's not what I do.

Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress but we can't figure out what they are good for. Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal."

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

the first lesson: you need to stop thinking of your law firm as a practice and start thinking of it as a business that sells legal products.

There may certainly be thinking beings besides men on the other planets of our solar system. But by the suppositions of such beings we do not change our standing point – we extend our conception quantitively not qualitatively.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

There is joint action, but no joint thinking. There is only tradition which preserves thoughts and communicates them to others as a stimulus to their thinking.

This civilization was able to spring into existence because the peoples were dominated by ideas which were the application of the teachings of economics to the problems of economic policy. It will and must perish if the nations continue to pursue the course which they entered upon under the spell of doctrines rejecting economic thinking.

The Bolshevists persistently tell us that religion is opium for the people. Marxism is indeed opium for those who might take to thinking and must therefore be weaned from it.

In fact, "classes" don't exist in nature. It is our thinking—our arranging in categories—that constructs classes in our minds. The question is not whether social classes exist in the sense of Karl Marx; the question is whether we can use the concept of social classes in the way in which Karl Marx meant it. We can't.

I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Cafe and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

They have filtered God's Word and commands through their own culturally influenced thinking. Their image of His glory is formed by their limited perceptions rather than by His true image as revealed through His living Word.

Emotions are a form of thinking, and blocked emotions bias thinking. As emotions get bound by shame, their energy is frozen, which blocks the full interaction between the mind and the will.

The idea that we can systematically understand certain aspects of the world and make predictions based on what we've learned, while appreciating and categorizing the extent and limitations of what we know, plays a big role in how we think.

Take it for granted that the government will disregard long-term dangers-such as those affecting the environment-in order to cling to power; that the citizenry will do the same because thinking is too much like hard work; and then the handful of Cassandras are proved right, they will be held to blame and very likely stoned or shot.

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

If I wanted to make a difference… Wishing for things to change wouldn't make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn't bring them. Dreaming wouldn't provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn't be enough to bring transformation to me or others. Only by managing my thinking and shifting my thoughts from desire to deeds would I be able to bring about positive change. I needed to go from wanting to doing.

People who embrace possibility thinking are capable of accomplishing tasks that seem impossible because they believe in solutions.