Quotes About Thinking

Es totalmente arbitrario considerar como una totalidad, como un todo, la suma de lo que experimentamos de una cosa por medio de la mera percepción, y considerar como algo añadido, sin relación alguna con esa misma cosa, aquello que resulta de la contemplación pensante.

ideas and concepts. With the old man, who has really united his feelings with thinking-cognition, the concepts and ideas ring true; they are filled with warmth, and permeated with reality; they sound concrete and personal. Whilst with those who have ceased to develop beyond

Just to show you how far I was from predicting the accident or suspecting that it could occur-even though, except for Dolores Driscoll, who drove the bus, I was surely the person in town closest to the event, the only eyewitness, you might say-at the moment it occurred I was thinking of fucking Risa Walker.

All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.

In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that? Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think maybe it's true, even though I don't really like uncertainty. I'd much rather 'know', but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive.

God,' he said, 'why have you chastised me with such a terrible deformity as thinking? Why have you taught me to think, instead of teaching me the humility of cattle!

Whoever sits down behind a desk begins to think differently; his vision of the world and his hierarchy of values change.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.

If you're suffering, you're thinking.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!