Quotes about thinking

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“Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up.
Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.”

“So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go?”

“Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.”

“Kindness suits you."

"Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.”

“He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either."
I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.”

“I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard”

“Holy mother!"
"Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference."

-Hephaetus”

“… can I tell you something…? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.”

“Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.”

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

“We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”

“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”

“If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.”

“Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“and sometimes I sit
down at my typewriter
and I think
not of someone
cause there isn't anyone
to think
about and i wonder
is it worth it”

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

“I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”

“People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.”

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

“One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.”

“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.”

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

“I think in our desire to create a better America, we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.”

“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”

“It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.”

“If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says”

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”

“Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”

“I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.”

“people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”

“Wait. You work for me?"
"I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.”

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

“Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.”

“Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

“I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”

“I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies”

“Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love… I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

“Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.”

“I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”

“Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.”

“If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.”

“The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

“Annabeth smiled. “I don’t know the ocean very well, but my boyfriend does. I think it’s time you met Percy.”

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

“Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.”

“That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.”

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

“If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.”

“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”

“We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.”

“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”

“I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.”

“I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.”

“But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”

“Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.”

“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”

“Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.”

“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box”

“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”

“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”

“I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.”

“What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously.
“I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.”

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

(June 19, 1787)”

“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.'
'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”

“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”

“Insane is such an ugly word, a voice in my head said. Think of it as obtaining a new look at reality.”

“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.”

“I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction," Saiman said, his voice dry.
"You both think violence is foreplay.”

“I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.”

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

“I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.”

“I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.”

“I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”

“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”

“In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.”

“Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. “And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you’ve a brain as well!” He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me.”

“You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”

“But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.”

“Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.”

“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”