Top 1200 Thinking Clearly Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

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

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

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

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

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.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

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

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

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

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

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

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

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

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.

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

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.

I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else.

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.'

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

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

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

There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

After MIP, it was like, 'OK, there is way more.' We thinking MVP, we thinking All-Star.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

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.

I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

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

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

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

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.