Top 100 Best Thinking Quotes
#1. People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby
#2. The times you don't have to think are when you get in your best thinking.
Kate Hattemer
#3. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison
#4. I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith
#5. Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
Suzanne Collins
#6. The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you'll do your best thinking that way. And that's why I've always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don't go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.
Harry Truman
#7. Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree.
Colin Tudge
#9. I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
Naomi Benaron
#10. If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.
Stephen R. Covey
#11. The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
Alain De Botton
#12. This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.
Jason Chan Chi-san
#13. A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.
Apolo Ohno
#14. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.
Jennifer Niven
#15. The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.
Silken Laumann
#16. I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version of yourself regardless of what you may be doing.
Sophia Bush
#17. You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#18. I think the thing with fame is that everybody claims they all want your best. They all know what's good for you and you end up ragged, empty and tired. I did. I felt so empty. Everybody tried to grab a piece of me and everybody tried to push me into a corner.
Heather Nova
#19. Attempts to control complex systems by using the kind of mechanical, reductionist thinking championed by thinkers from Newton to Taylor - breaking everything down into component parts, or optimizing individual elements - tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.
Stanley McChrystal
#20. Don't you think that the best things are already in view?
Julia Ward Howe
#21. I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.
Chris Robinson
#22. The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.
Kieran Bew
#23. In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.
Robert Breault
#24. I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.
Corey Taylor
#25. We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.
Marvin J. Ashton
#26. Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.
William Monahan
#27. I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.
Barack Obama
#28. I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
Spike Lee
#29. Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.
Maria Shriver
#30. Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant
David Dunn
#31. I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?
Elizabeth Prentiss
#33. I don't think it's a requirement that a happy, fulfilling relationship also provide the best sex of all time.
Mallory Ortberg
#34. Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?
David Brooks
#35. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required. I have to protect my goddess, as best as I can.
Dennis Haysbert
#36. I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.
Kimberly Elise
#37. I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.
Kristen Bell
#38. I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
Stephen Malkmus
#39. Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory ... well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#40. I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
Truman Capote
#41. Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
Kai Greene
#42. The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
Plato
#43. Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
Ray Bradbury
#44. The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.
Terry Hoeppner
#45. No matter how well thought out it is, and regardless of which "best practices" it includes, no method can replace thinking.
Anonymous
#46. I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is inspired or creates something, to write a joke or a song, that's like the God-like part of a person.
Dave Chappelle
#47. I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
Terence McKenna
#48. We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!
Reshma Saujani
#49. The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.
Henry Ford
#50. Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.
Van Morrison
#51. With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go you're going to be a different age or there's going to be different circumstances. So I think the best way to do it is to simply wish the best for that thing.
Jason Mraz
#52. It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.
Amandla Stenberg
#53. You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.
Zooey Deschanel
#54. I'm actually really proud of how I believe people perceive me in this industry. I worked really hard to be seen in a certain way. I think I get a lot of respect for what I usually do. I find that comedic world completely fulfilling and wonderful and they're all my best friends.
Lizzy Caplan
#55. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
Alistair Cooke
#56. The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Casey Stengel
#57. The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
Haruki Murakami
#58. When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.
Karen Lewis
#59. I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.
Christopher Rice
#60. A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.
Kyle Abraham
#61. Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. 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.
Rick Moranis
#63. You are the best part of my day, Tink. You make me feel whole and happy and when I'm not with you, I'm thinking about you. I'm not in love with you, but I know that I can't live without you.
R.L. Mathewson
#64. When I am at peace with myself ... then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say ... I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#65. I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.
Petra Collins
#66. Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
William Goldman
#67. The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.
Ted Agon
#68. I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
David McCullough
#69. There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self.
Carla Gugino
#70. If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.
Miranda Kenneally
#71. To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.
Derrick Jensen
#72. I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
Sara Paretsky
#73. All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.
John Mellencamp
#74. Sometimes you literally need some pressure on your shoulder, to fetch the best in you...
Shivam Saxena
#75. I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.
John Leguizamo
#76. Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
Takeru Kobayashi
#77. Give your best, not your all.
If you give your best and you lost, you still have something left in you.
But if you give your all, you will lose everything and be left with pain and regret.
Anonymous
#78. I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.
James Magnussen
#79. The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance.
Garry Fitchett
#80. Most of us walk around thinking that our view is best - probably because it is the only one we really know.
Ed Catmull
#81. I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.
Michael Eisner
#82. I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
Garry Winogrand
#83. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#84. I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.
Ina Garten
#85. I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and hydrate.
Sophia Bush
#86. I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.
Albert Belle
#87. People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.
Laird Hamilton
#88. We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
Bill Gates
#89. It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.
John Lancaster Spalding
#90. I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.
Andre Ward
#91. The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will never happen. We have to channel it in ways where we can see it and hold it accountable. And I think the parties are the best vehicle for that.
Mark Shields
#92. We use to regret over our past ... but sometimes i wonder why ???
because everything we did in past was best from our side, well in case of both doing and thinking ...
Lovely Goyal
#93. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.
Phil Zimmermann
#94. Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on.
Mike Leonard
#95. The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.
Sri Chinmoy
#96. I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.
Alex Ebert
#97. Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.
Alex Riley
#98. I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
Conrad Hilton
#99. Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very literally forced me to put one foot in front of the other at a time when emotionally I didn't think I could do that.
Cheryl Strayed
#100. I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
Gore Vidal
