Quotes About Thinking

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

I was getting an idea. It was probably a bad idea. (When most of your training in tactical thinking comes from adventure shows, that does tend to happen.)

Anyway, there was a difference in watching media because I was safe on a transport with no one making me do anything, and watching media because I was trying not to think about all the ways I'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation …. Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

To lead is to live dangerously because when leadership counts, when you lead people through difficult change, you challenge what people hold dear—their daily habits, tools, loyalties, and ways of thinking—with nothing more to offer perhaps than a possibility.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.

For even the heathen poet said, "I was wrong in thinking that that kingdom which is established by force is stronger than that which is joined together by friendship."6

This is weft and the weave of story for me. The endless lyrical emerging of the earth's tremendous thinking and the humbling required to simply bear witness to it. And the extraordinary day, when for an hour or so you realise that you too are being witnessed.

Getting confirmation of one's own creation is based solely on uncertainty and a lack of focus in one's own thinking.

According to Clausewitz, the purpose of studying war was to provide commanders with a sound basis for their thinking and render it unnecessary to reinvent the wheel with every new situation.

We have an unfounded fear that machines will someday start thinking like humans. What we should really fear is that humans have already started thinking like machines.

Mi piace. Quando parlo con te mi sembra di essere più intelligente. Mi costringi a pensare.» «Pensare è una bella cosa» ha osservato Uman. «Pensare ci piace.» Quello che avevo detto era vero. Tutte le volte che ero con lui mi sentivo più intelligente, più acuta, più spiritosa. Mi sentivo tirata al limite. Le nostre conversazioni erano casuali, ma sotto la superficie ribolliva sempre qualcosa. Un «sottotesto», lo avrebbe probabilmente definito Uman.

A deeper knowledge of truth leads to deeper godliness. Healthy beliefs lead to healthy behavior. Right thinking, empowered by the Holy Spirit, leads to right living. "Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth." John 17:17

thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means

That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

To make big money in the investment world you have to learn to think independently; to think independently you need to be comfortable standing alone.

The road of good intentions is paved with what were foreseeable troubles. Thinking long and hard before you take the leap will save you from having to think long and hard about all the trouble you just signed on for. Warren

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.