Top 100 Much Thinking Quotes
#1. I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.
Judith Weir
#2. Too much thinking can make a person ill at ease.
Art Hochberg
#3. I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity.
Too much thinking never solved anything.
Laurie Viera Rigler
#4. Jim [Henson] had written letters to his five children to be opened only after his death. Brian read from his. Jim wrote, 'Be good to each other. Love and forgive everybody.' I remembered Jim telling me that he never wasted energy on hating anybody; he had too much thinking to do.
Caroll Spinney
#5. Meditation is not so concerned with how much thinking is going on as it is with how much room you are making for it to take place within the field of your awareness from one moment to the next.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#6. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Hunter S. Thompson
#7. how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...
Eagle_
#8. Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
Judith Guest
#9. You think too much. Thinking will bring you nothing but suffering. Be simple.
Christopher Moore
#10. Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice.
Lisa Kleypas
#11. Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes.
Phil Simms
#12. I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
J.G. Ballard
#13. The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
Brenda Ueland
#14. Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.
John Flanagan
#16. The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#17. Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#18. Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao
Lao-Tzu
#19. With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
Alexander Pope
#20. If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.
Alison Gopnik
#21. Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
William Feather
#22. When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#23. When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.
Roger Von Oech
#24. Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.
Ehabib
#26. I'm serious. You've been doing so much thinking with your head that you're ignoring your heart completely. There has to be a balance. The fact that both of you are letting other things consume you is about to ruin any chance you'll ever have at being happy.
Colleen Hoover
#27. Cassandra: 'Tis too much thinking you do, Riley.
Riley: Yes, I do, and 'tis always of you
Marie Ferrarella
#28. I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb ...
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
#29. Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.
Kathy Griffin
#30. A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking.
Marty Rubin
#31. Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free.
Greg Giraldo
#33. You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
Greg Abbott
#34. Do you know how much thinking and feeling I've done? It's terrible. And nothing's come of it.
Andrei Platonov
#35. Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing
Robin Sharma
#36. It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
Tim Winton
#37. I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
Vincent Van Gogh
#38. Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#39. Evidence shows that we do much less thinking than we believe we do - except, of course, when we think about it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#40. I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.
Frank Fairfield
#41. You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.
Stella Benson
#42. I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it.
Shepard Fairey
#43. God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" ... "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" ... "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet."
Shel Silverstein
#44. I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.
Will Ferrell
#45. I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.
Guy Fieri
#46. The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake.
Noam Chomsky
#47. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.
Joe Budden
#49. I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.
Liz Miller
#50. I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom ... Back then it was a lot different.
Jared Gilman
#51. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel
#52. Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai Lama
#53. I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.
David Folkenflik
#54. Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
Ben Shapiro
#55. Yeah, right. I don't believe that one for a minute. What do you think? I fell off a turnip truck? (Simone)
Honestly? All I was thinking about was how beautiful you are. How much I wanted to feel your skin against mine and how I've never been this attracted to a woman before. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
Nancy Kassebaum
#57. Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.
Michala Petri
#58. I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
Will.i.am
#59. No matter how much money you make or don't, how many friends you think you have or lack or how much you know you are loved - or not, we all cherish one thing above all else, the intrinsic need to connect
Lisa Bloom
#60. The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.
Richard Bandler
#61. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
#62. In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
Matthew Henry
#64. There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
Samuel Butler
#65. Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
#66. And to get that much talent in the show - and to keep it constant and consistent - I think is a remarkable feat.
Anthony Head
#67. I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.
Anne Hathaway
#68. Read everyday quotes start from easy which don't want a lot of thinking, then average,then something complex. This will re-wire your brain, however if you find a book of quotes I suggest you to read all quotes slow and even if you don't get a quote or quotes read them as much time as possible.
Deyth Banger
#69. I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.
Stephen Karam
#70. We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.
Garrison Keillor
#71. I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.
Bitsie Tulloch
#72. Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.
Lizz Winstead
#73. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.
Wilbur Ross
#74. I think new life is the most exciting thing and I absolutely have so much respect for my friends and family that have gone and done it because it seems like the hardest job in the world. So, who knows - maybe one day I might try it myself. But I completely salute anyone who does.
Christine Bottomley
#75. I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.
St. Lucia
#76. Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
#77. I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
Marianne Williamson
#78. Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.
Todd Burpo
#79. I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'
Richard Madden
#80. When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".
Peter Kinderman
#81. I try to do something good, but when it doesn't go good, then I go like too much into myself, what I'm doing right, wrong, instead of thinking more what I have to do with the ball,
Dinara Safina
#82. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.
Virginia Woolf
#83. Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.
Luke Wilson
#84. Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
John Locke
#85. I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some kind of moment where you, like, feel a different energy around someone.
Robert Pattinson
#86. The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.
Tom Hiddleston
#87. I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.
Geena Davis
#88. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#89. To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.
Edward Said
#90. I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.
Mother Teresa
#91. I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.
George Saunders
#92. If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.
Bill Bryson
#93. I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.
Stephen Malkmus
#94. I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
Henry Rollins
#95. I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, liked and wore the same thing?
Anya Hindmarch
#96. When your time spent making money is significantly greater than your time spent spending money, you will be amazed at how much you can save without even really thinking about it.
Sophia Amoruso
#97. There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film-I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.
William Eggleston
#98. Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.
Walter Cronkite
#99. I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.
Joe Dumars
#100. The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.
Dolores Hart
