Quotes About Thinking

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

The one thing Marvel does is think outside the box, going all the way back to Ang Lee directing the first 'Hulk.' They like to go outside the genre.

India is among the leaders in thinking about how technology can solve some of the problems about financial inclusion. But if you think that financial inclusion as a problem has a solution rooted in technology, it's obviously not the only thing.

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

The problem with the internet and the way that we communicate on the internet is - I mean it's obvious to everybody - but sometimes we don't stop and take a breath and think about it.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

We always think that the right thing is to make an effort to have domestic coaches. I don't think that posture is bad.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.

I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. It's a way of thinking about films differently; that's what I think I like the most about it. I love the fact that's it's pointing at a more mysterious world - that the world is more of a mysterious place than we tend to let ourselves believe.

Descartes defendía que el mejor método consistía en comenzar aceptando como verdaderas únicamente aquellas ideas que quedaban con claridad fuera de dudas. Ni la autoridad, ni tan siquiera nuestros propios sentidos deben hacernos aceptar una supuesta verdad. Solo son ciertas las cosas de las que podemos estar seguros. Y el primer principio de este método es «pienso, luego existo».

I told my psychiatrist, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch.

Crime is common but logic is rare,

It is in mathematics that our thinking processes have their purest form.

When children focus on their parents and neglect themselves, they never develop the inner resources that help them to know how to feel, think, or behave in a given situation. This is the essence of codependency and a damaged boundary system.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Without really intending to, without really thinking about where it might lead, I said, "How does one get one's mind clean?" That is the very best question, my friend. The answer is a simple answer, but very hard also: Live a good life. Help people. Meditate. Live another good life. Meditate some more. Don't hurt. Don't hurt. Don't hurt.

I too have often felt the need to understand it all; but I know my limits. In my life I've done more suffering than thinking — though I believe one understands better that way.

But did he then love God, or was it only the music, as an impudent priest said to him one day in jest, without thinking of the unhappiness which his quip might cause in him? Anybody else would not have paid any attention to it, and would not have changed his mode of living--(so many people put up with not knowing what they think!) But Christophe was cursed with an awkward need for sincerity, which filled him with scruples at every turn. And when scruples came to him they possessed him forever.

Education isn't about teaching people what to think, which is how we have spent a lot of church time, but to help them learn how to think and respond appropriately in real time in continuity with the script-ure.

I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.

In the end, there is no substitute for clear thinking, logic, and common sense.... A better path to enlightenment involves reading and thinking for yourself.