Thinking Quotes
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.Havelock Ellis
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.Joan Rivers
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.Albert Einstein
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
High living and high thinking are poles apart.B. J. Gupta
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.Milo Bloom
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.A. Bronson Alcott
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.Bill Peterson, football coach
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....Richard Bach
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.Emmet Fox
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.Valdemar W. Setze
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.Kin Hubbard
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.Lyndon B. Johnson
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.Ronnie Shakes
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?Ronnie Shakes
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
Orthodoxy means not thinking - - Not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.George Orwell, 1984
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.Phillips Brooks
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
