Top 1200 Thinking Differently Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Your diet has to be number one. If you don't eat the right things, it doesn't matter who you are. Sometimes those foods treat people differently.

One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.

I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, ’68, ’70, would you do things differently?

Possibly. I know on set, they were talking about ‘oh, a sequel’ or something. That would be way down the road, because this one we just finished. So, [I’m] not even thinking about that again. But they could be thinking about it. That would be fun.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

The E.U. has narrowed our horizons. It has narrowed everyone's horizons in Whitehall so they're not thinking about the big things in the world. They're not thinking about the forces changing it or what Britain can really do to contribute to them.

I'm not here to say what [Clintons] did wrong. I mean, there's going to be plenty of post-mortem review of what should have gone differently.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.

When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.

Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Mood-aware technologies would make personalized recommendations and encourage people to do things differently, better, or faster.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

It's important to know people grow up differently than you, and they believe different things. It's not about who's right or wrong.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

I'm definitely happy with everything I've done. I stand behind it. You'll always be saying, "Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently." But you have to let it be what it is.

Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'

In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.

Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?

One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is.

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.

I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.

There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.

When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.