Top 1200 Rational Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

That's tangent, but I like the strategizing and thinking about how things are going to fall and thinking of different ways to engage with fans. Ultimately, the goal is for the music to be heard by as many people as possible.

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.

Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

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 for others!

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

When I retweet a troll, I'm not thinking of the troll, I'm thinking of the audience: how can I make them laugh with me, at him?

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.