Thinking Quotes - page 3

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. (David Ogilvy)
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. View quote
Jonas Salk
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. View quote
A. A. Milne
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. View quote
Alice Walker
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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. View quote
Octavia Butler
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. View quote
Edith Sitwell
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. (Mary Martin)
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. View quote
Samuel Richardson
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
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. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all. View quote
Bob Dole
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. View quote
Alfred Korzybski
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. View quote
George Orwell
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. View quote
Alan Watts
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. (Henry Mintzberg)
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. View quote
Zig Ziglar
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. View quote
Francis Bacon
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking. View quote
Vasily Klyuchevsky
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. View quote
Ray Bradbury