Top 1200 Abstract Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

When I was 14 I wasn't even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look doubtful. My head didn't work with words very well- at least not in this abstract, descriptive sort of way. Grace:"Sensitive" I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy" Grace:"Creative" Sam:"Dangerously emo" Grace:"Thoughtful" Sam:"Feng shui." I laughed so hard I snorted. Grace:"How did you get feng shui out of thoughtful?" Sam:"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange funiture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

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, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn't want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.