300 Quotes on Thinking Ratings & Comments

In the absence of overwhelming knowledge, there is space for contemplation; ochre sunsets beckon harmony found not in awareness, but in thick-shitted blissful settlements of choice.

Author: Fiona Tremell

Imagination is the bridge where reality checks in but lets dreams dance freely; it is creative push-ups for the mind's muscles.

Author: Avery Ricci

Creativity requires courage to think beyond boundaries.

Author: Lily Smith

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

Author: David Zucker

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

Author: John Zorn

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

Author: Zhang Ziyi

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Author: Xun Zi

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

Author: Sarah Zettel

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

Author: Paula Zahn

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

Author: Rick Yune

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

Author: Jack Youngblood

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Author: Loretta Young

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Author: Andrew Young

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Author: Paramahansa Yogananda

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Author: Francis Yockey

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Author: Boris Yeltsin

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

Author: Noah Wyle

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Author: Steven Wright

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Author: William Wordsworth

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Author: Virginia Woolf

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

Author: Carter Woodson

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Author: Ed Wood

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

Author: Lee Womack

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Author: Tobias Wolff

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Author: Edward Witten

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

Author: Norman Wisdom

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Author: Niklaus Wirth

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

Author: Alex Winter

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Author: Alex Winter

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

Author: Peta Wilson

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

Author: Wendell Willkie

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Author: Wendell Willkie

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

Author: Rowan Williams

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Author: Prince William

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

Author: Andrew Wiles

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Author: Andrew Wiles

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Author: Andrew Wiles

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

Author: Andrew Wiles

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

Author: Laura Wilder

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Author: Shaun White

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it.

Author: Shaun White

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

Author: Margaret Wheatley

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Author: Margaret Wheatley

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Author: Richard Whately

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

Author: Tina Weymouth

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Author: Lee Westwood

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Author: Mary Wesley

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Author: Wim Wenders

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

Author: Paul Wellstone

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

Author: Julius Wellhausen

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

Author: Robert Welch

Music stops you from thinking.

Author: Peter Weir

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Author: Simone Weil

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Author: Hugo Weaving

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Author: Alan Watts

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

Author: Tom Watson

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Author: Thomas Watson

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

Author: Denzel Washington

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Author: Rick Warren

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Author: Mary Ward

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

Author: Vera Wang

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

Author: John Wanamaker

I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.

Author: Jim Walton

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

Author: Bill Walton

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

Author: Neale Walsch

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

Author: Marc Wallice

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

Author: Marc Wallice

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

Author: Henry Wallace

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

Author: Mort Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Author: Alice Walker

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

Author: Christopher Walken

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Author: Denis Waitley

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

Author: Robert Wagner

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Author: Peter Vries

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Author: Voltaire

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Author: Voltaire

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Author: Voltaire

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

Author: A. Vogt

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

Author: Joan Vinge

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Author: Joan Vinge

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

Author: Linda Vester

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Author: Tom Verlaine

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

Author: Ben Vereen

I want to get people thinking.

Author: James Vega

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

Author: Giorgio Vasari

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

Author: Mordechai Vanunu

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Author: Jim Valvano

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Author: Evelyn Underhill

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Author: Brenda Ueland

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Author: Lao Tzu

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Author: Mike Tyson

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

Author: Steven Tyler

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

Author: Anne Tyler

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Author: Alan Turing

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

Author: Edward Tufte

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

Author: Edward Tufte

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

Author: Paul Tsongas

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Author: Paul Tsongas

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Author: Donald Trump

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

Author: Donald Trump

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Author: Donald Trump

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

Author: Lionel Trilling

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

Author: Lars Trier

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Author: William Trevor

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Author: John Travolta

The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.

Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Author: Sue Townsend

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

Author: Robert Towne

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Author: Lily Tomlin

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

Author: Meg Tilly

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

Author: Meg Tilly

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Author: Edward Thorndike

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

Author: John Thorn

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Author: Henry Thoreau

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Author: William Thompson

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Author: Richard Thompson

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Author: Dylan Thomas

There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.

Author: John Tesh

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

Author: Sachin Tendulkar

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

Author: John Templeton

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Author: Julie Taymor

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Author: Susan Taylor

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Author: Jane Taylor

I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

Author: Channing Tatum

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

Author: Kenzo Tange

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

Author: Amber Tamblyn

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Author: Gay Talese

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Author: Jalal Talabani

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

Author: Toru Takemitsu

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Author: Thomas Szasz

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

Author: Loretta Swit

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Author: Jacqueline Susann

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

Author: Patricia Sun

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Author: Joe Strummer

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Author: Joe Strummer

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

Author: Gustav Stresemann

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Author: Leo Strauss

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

Author: J. Straczynski

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Author: W. Stone

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Author: Oliver Stone

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

Author: Emma Stone

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

Author: Payne Stewart

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Author: Anne Stevenson

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Author: Wallace Stevens

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

Author: Howard Stern

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

Author: Casey Stengel

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

Author: Casey Stengel

I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

Author: Hailee Steinfeld

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Author: Gertrude Stein

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Author: Rod Steiger

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

Author: Gwen Stefani

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

Author: Robert Stack

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

Author: Baruch Spinoza

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

Author: Britney Spears

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

Author: Nicholas Sparks

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Author: Thomas Sowell

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Author: Sammy Sosa

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Author: Ralph Sockman

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Author: Leelee Sobieski

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Author: Sydney Smith

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Author: Martha Smith

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

Author: Margaret Smith

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Author: Dean Smith

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

Author: David Smith

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Author: David Smith

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

Author: Yakov Smirnoff

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Author: Allan Sloan

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Author: John Sladek

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

Author: John Sladek

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

Author: Ricky Skaggs

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Author: Swami Sivananda

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Author: Edith Sitwell

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

Author: Peter Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Author: Isaac Singer

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Author: Nina Simone

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Author: Nina Simone

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Author: Herbert Simon

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Author: Phil Simms

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

Author: Clifford Simak

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

Author: Shel Silverstein

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Author: Don Shula

You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.

Author: Andrew Shue

The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

Author: Andrew Shue

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

Author: John Shirley

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Author: Li Shing

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Author: Michael Shermer

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Author: Percy Shelley

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

Author: Sidney Sheldon

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

Author: Wallace Shawn

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

Author: Tommy Shaw

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

Author: Tommy Shaw

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

Author: Tommy Shaw

I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

Author: Lindsey Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Author: George Shaw

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

Author: Omar Sharif

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Author: William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Author: William Shakespeare

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.

Author: Butler Shaffer

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

Author: John Sexton

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

Author: John Sexton

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

Author: Richard Serra

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Author: Jerry Seinfeld

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Author: Lance Secretan

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Author: Charles Scribner, Jr.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Author: Walter Scott

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

Author: Campbell Scott

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Author: Jason Schwartzman

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

Author: Jason Schwartzman

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Author: David Schwartz

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Author: Robert Schuller

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Author: Karl Schlegel

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Author: Wally Schirra

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Author: Oskar Schindler

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.

Author: Sydney Schanberg

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Author: Dorothy Sayers

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

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Author: Jose Saramago

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Author: George Santayana

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Author: Carlos Santana

I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.

Author: Gus Sant

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Author: Carl Sandburg

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Author: Carl Sandburg

That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

Author: Richie Sambora

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Author: Jonas Salk

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Author: Carl Sagan

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!

Author: Marquis Sade

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Author: Fred Saberhagen

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

Author: Richard Russo

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Author: Bertrand Russell

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

Author: Geoffrey Rush

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Author: Theodore Rubin

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

Author: Erno Rubik

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Author: J. Rowling

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

Author: Gena Rowlands

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Author: Arnold Rothstein

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

Author: Joseph Rotblat

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

Author: Joseph Rotblat

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Author: Portia Rossi

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

Author: Gavin Rossdale

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Author: Mitt Romney

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

Author: Mimi Rogers

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

Author: Edith Rogers

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

Author: Jai Rodriguez

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.

Author: Chi Rodriguez

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Author: Anita Roddick

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Author: Anita Roddick

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Author: Knute Rockne

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Author: Jay Roach

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Author: Joan Rivers

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

Author: Faith Ringgold

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Author: Terry Riley

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

Author: Alan Rickman

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Author: Branch Rickey

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Author: Samuel Richardson

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

Author: Natasha Richardson

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

Author: Cliff Richard

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

Author: Adrienne Rich

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

Author: Adrienne Rich

The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.

Author: Paul Reubens

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Author: Jules Renard

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Author: Ernest Renan

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

Author: Mitchell Reiss

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Author: Charley Reese

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Author: Eric Raymond

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

Author: Harold Ramis

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

Author: Ted Rall

Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

Author: Franklin Raines

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

Author: Timothy Radcliffe

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Author: Joseph Pulitzer

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Author: Manuel Puig

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Author: Charley Pride

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Author: Richard Price

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Author: Terry Prachett

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Author: Michael Porter

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

Author: Gail Porter

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Author: Sydney Pollack

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Author: John Polkinghorne

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Author: John Polkinghorne

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

Author: John Polanyi

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Author: Frederik Pohl

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Author: Donald Pleasence

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Author: Andrei Platonov

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Author: Andrei Platonov

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Author: Plato

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Author: Sylvia Plath