Quotes About Thinking

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

I will think of doing television only when I'll be looking forward to doing reality shows.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?

The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality--or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the "thinking," "educated" class take ideas as more veridical than facts.

Thought is a process of work, joy is an issue of work

They are pretty good at improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison

The instant we admit that a book is too sacred to be doubted , or even reasoned about , we are mental serfs.

he was better suited to a crisis than to keeping a commitment going . . . He was well suited to emergencies, to holding his nerve, to quick thinking and fast reactions, but found the qualities demanded by Joan's slow decline harder to summon.

shoveling food into his mouth. Thoughts came fluently, cogently:

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Magic is absurd. It is a system of thinking that does not work and does not get one anywhere," said the friar. "It works, but it does not get one anywhere," said Vance. "But it is very beautiful. Magic is an art that pleases the eye and the ear," said Bulbul.

Careful and clear thinking requires a certain rigor; it is a skill, and, like all skills, it requires training, practice, and vigilance.

Our thoughts are the most important thing about us. All that we achieve or fail to achieve is the direct result of our thinking. Our thoughts are like seeds that produce crops.

whom do you turn to for information to get your work done?) and a problem-solving or brainstorming network (whom do you typically turn to for help in thinking

Berlin in particular had once been a thinking man's paradise, though now, to Einstein's horror—indeed, to the horror of the entire civilized world—all of Germany had become a bastion of willful ignorance and unequalled brutality. The

If we do not put effort into creating our original thoughts, then ready-made pseudo-thoughts, trite words and phrases, come automatically to mind and carry us along with them, resulting in "thinking almost entirely without thoughts." (Steiner).

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions. When

I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.