Top 1200 Good Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

A good record is one where I can tap my toes. I always say let your feet do the thinking.

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

I think as soon as we start thinking of ourselves as good people, that's when we start letting ourselves off the hook which is bad. I think we should always be trying to be better but that doesn't mean we want to be good.

Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

I don't wake up in the morning thinking that I have to bag roles in all good films that are being made.

I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called the 'Victory Cafe', and thinking sadly to myself, 'This is a very good manuscript but not a very good book.' I don't know what I meant by that, but I was pretty heartbroken and sure it was true.

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.

We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

Always thinking that you're not very good is far better than being cocky.

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

It's just one of those things. When you're a wrestler you're thinking about one guy, yourself, your character and whatever guy it is you're working with. When you're a writer and you're kind of in a booking type role, you're thinking about the entire roster so you're thinking about wrestling 24 hours a day.

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear….Nobody's music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.

Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!

Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you've just got to do it. Just like it's no good agreeing that it's possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it's possible.

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

It is always better to wait for a good surprise instead of thinking about it.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they're going to do with them. It's the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.