Thinking Quotes

We all know our mind plays a pivotal role in thinking and definitions term ‘thinking’ as a purposeful mental activity and most part of it is a conscious activity. A lot of times, we end up either being critical thinkers or creative thinkers. While creative thinking helps us to exhibit and voice out our innovative ideas, critical thinking lays significant emphasis on analysis and problem solving skills. Read on the next bit to find out about the quotations and sayings on thinking.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.
Good Health
Betty White

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I hate my feet. I don't like my hands, either: they're like lions' paws. When I was in the Boosh, in a catsuit and gold heels, I was constantly thinking, 'I hate the way I look.' I should have just enjoyed myself, because that was as good as it was going to get.
Good Hatred
Noel Fielding

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When I begin to feel tired and do not want to work anymore, I see my members next to me working so hard without taking a break. When I see the members like that, I end up thinking a lot. Because we can see each other grow and hold each other accountable, we all improve together.
Work
Jungkook

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Reason Work Intelligence
Henry Ford

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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
Opinion Belief Vulnerability World
David Lloyd George

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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Present Remembrance Decision Understanding
Omar Khayyam

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I don't think I have seen raises like the ones we've had the past two years since I've been here - and with relatively low inflation. I think that's highly commendable.
Money Rising Prices
John Mason Brown

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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
Greatness
Cam Newton

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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
Finn Wittrock

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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Words
Alan Turing

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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Fear
Wayne Rooney

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We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
Family Marriage
Prince William

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Life
Marcus Aurelius

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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.
Truth
C. S. Lewis

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Advice Anger Argument / Debate Opinion
Franklin P. Jones

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In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
Good Love
Eugene Levy

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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Funny People Sarcasm Satire
Adolf Hitler

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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
Best
Rick Moranis

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No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.
Amitabh Bachchan

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A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.
Night Work Flying
Avicii

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I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
Greatness People Country
Nelly

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There is no excuse whatsoever for men to harass women in an abusive sexual manner. And, I am devastated that anyone should deem me capable of thinking otherwise.
Women
Angela Lansbury

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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Opinion Past Sharing Experience
Omar Khayyam

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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Inspiration Motivation Advice Optimism
Eudora Welty

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A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
Meaningful Money Argument / Debate Opinion
Franklin P. Jones

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
Advice Opinion Viewpoint Proverbs
George Carlin

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Problems
Albert Einstein

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I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
Art People
Sushant Singh Rajput

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Attitude Concerned Character Confidence
Theodore Roosevelt

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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins

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Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
People Internet
Mark Zuckerberg

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I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.
Jennifer Lawrence

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I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.
Life Bank
Ryan Gosling

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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Life
Roald Dahl

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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Independence Day Belief Proverbs Restraint
David Lloyd George

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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Writing
Don DeLillo

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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Advice Addiction Opinion Drinks
Omar Khayyam

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I used to love the darkness But the sun is my new best friend As soon as I embraced him He put my misery to an end.
Best Friend Love Sharing Darkness
Terri Guillemets

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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
Death Observation Opinion Taste
George Carlin

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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
Opinion Being Yourself People Trend
Cameron Diaz

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There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
Matthew McConaughey

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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Sammy Hagar

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I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.
Hope
Tobey Maguire

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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Friendship Wedding Opinion Reason
Omar Khayyam

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While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Observation Imagination Information Ideas
Thomas Moore

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To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Assumptions Belief Work Writers
Eudora Welty

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Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
Acting Advice Practice Groundwork
Cameron Diaz

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I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
Valerie Bertinelli

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'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'
People Time
Christian Bale

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Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Life
Amy Winehouse

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Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
Louise Fletcher

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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Meaningful Advice Opinion Decision
David Lloyd George

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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
Life Observation Order Things
Eudora Welty

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Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Advice Curiosity Excitement Example
Gene Tierney

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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
Admiration Conduct Belief Power
Adolf Hitler

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You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.
Money
Joaquin Phoenix

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I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.
Football
Gareth Bale

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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Time
Bruce Lee

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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
People Country
Alec Baldwin

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Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
Night Mind
Britney Spears

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I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.
Time
Megyn Kelly

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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
Wayne Rooney

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I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'
People
Louis Theroux

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And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
Work Morning
Paul Ryan

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Appearance Reason Right Things
Thomas Paine

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
People Power
Alice Walker

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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
Opinion Belief Perception Thought
David Lloyd George

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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Observation
Wallace Stevens

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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Men Battles Caution Wisdom
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Observation Viewpoint Example Water
Franklin P. Jones

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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
Age Guts Revolt Revolution
Adolf Hitler

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Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.
People
Kanye West

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Yes, we believe in globalization and trade, but we also believe in you being able to benefit from that more. For too long, we progressives have seemed like part of the system. We need to start thinking about whether or not it's delivering for us now.
Globalization
Jacinda Ardern

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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
People Time
Rami Malek

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I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'
Ridley Scott

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Talking Soul Inspiration
Plato

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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Positivity
Zig Ziglar

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Opinion Viewpoint Philosophy Sadness
Eudora Welty

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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Observation Comparisons Emotions Feelings
Charles Kingsley

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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Opinion Belief Viewpoint Comparisons
George Carlin

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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
Elon Musk

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
People Teachers Success
Bill Gates

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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Nothing Good
William Shakespeare

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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.
Life Love Time
Paul Hollywood

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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
Parents
Aaron Sorkin

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When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.
Giancarlo Esposito

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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Opinion Politics Residency Contradiction
David Lloyd George

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.
Children’s Day Patience Learning Thought
Franklin P. Jones

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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Observation Opinion Power Usefulness
George Carlin

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A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Men Pleasure Desire Emotions
Helen Rowland

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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Best Heart
Steve Jobs

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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.
Love
Chris Evans

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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Cool
Kaley Cuoco

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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
Food Restaurants
Kate Hudson

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There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.
Life Things
Michael Fassbender

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Love Confidence Kindness
Lao Tzu

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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Paradox Satire Contradiction Faith
Omar Khayyam

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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
Opinion Opportunities Positivity Problems
Cameron Diaz

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Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Money Addiction Business Ridicule
Franklin P. Jones

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