No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it’s when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers’ cafe and have a bacon sandwich.
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.
Sometimes you gotta just chill. You gotta chill your thinking process.
Good actors, you always know what they’re thinking. That’s why they’re good actors.
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.
Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.
Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn’t want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it’s a choice: would you rather work at McDonald’s or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald’s over the sell side.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
I’ll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.
I love having a shaved head. I’d rather not deal with hair if I don’t have to. I like not thinking about it. A shaved head and letting my beard go requires the least amount of anything.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Let your performance do the thinking.
My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you’ve finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it’s time to start lunch, and by the time you’ve done that, you’re doing dinner and thinking, ‘There has to be a menu we can order from.’
I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.
At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you’re thinking, ‘How the hell am I here? All these people I’ve never met are here, and it’s so cool!’ And then, as time goes on, it’s a little bit like, ‘Ah… it’s more like work.’
I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
Science is not a thing. It’s a verb. It’s a way of thinking about things. It’s a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.
I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I have the fattest face.’ Now I look at those pictures and I think, ‘So much collagen!’
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that’s not as fun as saying, ‘You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.’ And next time my fans eat pizza, they’re thinking of Venus!
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.
Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.
Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.
Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.
I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option – it isn’t.
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
I’m so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I’m like an English boy going to an American college. I’m thinking cheerleaders, I’m thinking kegs. That’s not what’s on the cards.
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life – the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
I don’t regret anything, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t look back and think, ‘What was I thinking?’
You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are – the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
I’m a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
