I’m a bit of an insomniac. I’m always thinking. I’ve got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.
The first thing you get from the humanities, when they’re well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you’re thinking about and what you’re paying attention to.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don’t feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can’t say I’ve written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
Whenever I’m taking time off, all I’m thinking about is working.
Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol’ freakin’ leopard shark… I’m looking at him and I’m thinking, ‘OK, he won’t hurt me.’
I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn’t count the thinking that goes on beforehand.
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest.
I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I’m more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don’t know.
I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‘Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.’
When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It’s the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they’d never stop slapping us.
Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
It’s really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won’t. But I’m strong enough to deal with that. I own that I’m freakish in my way.
I don’t spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.
Every college coach I talk to won’t say it on record, but everyone’s thinking, ‘Should I go to the league?’ Because you don’t have the same requirements. It’s different. The hours are different.
Football’s always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
When you’re speaking Spanish, you’re thinking in a different way.
I think it’s fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.
I’ve never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I’ve accomplished in my professional career and what I’ve accomplished in my career as a legislator.
I don’t walk into the lab in the morning thinking, ‘I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.’ I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
I’ve been in many auditions thinking, ‘God, do I have to take my shirt off?’
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
When there’s a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, ‘Maybe I don’t have what it takes?’ They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.
If you’re going to be sexy in a photo, you’d better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
I am always thinking about records I want to make.
Wishful thinking won’t make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin’s worldview won’t make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
I wake up at night thinking about Euripides’ ‘Hecuba.’ That to me is a story that says so much about what it is to be a human being in the middle of a world of unreliable things and people.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.
I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the ‘Dangal’ offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
Fear is when we’re thinking about the past or thinking about the future, two things that do not exist. If we stay in the moment, do our best in the moment, enjoy the moment, there is no fear.
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
A really irritating thing when you’re watching a film is if somebody’s accent isn’t bang-on – it distracts you from getting into the story because you’re thinking: ‘Where are they from?’
I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I’m not thinking about golf. I’m just wondering if my cooler’s got enough ice to make it through the day.
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity’s place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they’re thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you’re totally unbiased and objective.
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.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don’t learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
All my life I’d woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don’t go to practise, I’m thinking about it all day.
