Top 1200 Abstract Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going. I started thinking about all the bikes I've had stolen, and that got me thinking about crime, and that got me thinking about the city I'm in.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of the craft of these design geniuses who come up with beautiful color combinations and beautiful proportion suggestions and these kind of ideas, so I look at the runway shows in very different ways, just kind of a romantic artistic interpretation of how they would like to see fashion going forward, but for me it's much more abstract. The runway shows are much more abstract than you know what ends up on people is much more real to me.

It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again."

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.