Thinking Quotes - page 5

If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity can open up. (C.K. Prahalad)
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. View quote
Tadao Ando
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. View quote
Junot Diaz
I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. View quote
Brendan Fraser
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. View quote
Albert Ellis
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. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. View quote
Cass Sunstein
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Who am I? Subject and object in one - contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am. (Johann Gottlieb Fichte)
Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir. View quote
Carrie Fisher
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. View quote
John Adams
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. View quote
James Thurber
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. View quote
William James
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. View quote
Thomas Paine
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. View quote
Maria Callas
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking. (Naomi Watts)
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. View quote
George Carlin
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. View quote
Bruce Lee