Top 1200 Thinking Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late!

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

When I write a screenplay - and I think it's one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to be a screenwriter - I'm not thinking of it in terms of words on a page; I'm thinking in terms of visual images - basically, a comic book. I'm thinking of it in a series of shots.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I feel terrible for what I put my mom through, thinking I was a man and all the stupid decisions I used to make.

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

To any man currently thinking it's not safe to say anything to women these days, allow me to offer you a rule of thumb. If you're in any doubt about something you're going to say to a woman, just ask yourself if you'd say the same thing to a man.

If you think about it, now that Spider-Man is in the Marvel universe, that means that Peter Parker was probably, like, eight years old when he saw Tony on TV telling the world he's Iron Man. And when you start thinking about it as a whole world like that, it gets really fascinating.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend that everything is rosy, when they really believe that it's not. With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something it's meaning.

I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.

When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.