
Top 100 Quotes About Not Thinking
#1. If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.
Robin Sharma
#2. The essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
Timothy Keller
#3. When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.
Amish Tripathi
#4. There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
Fernando Pessoa
#5. She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time.
D.M. Thomas
#6. The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.
Kenneth Appel
#7. A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally,
John Grisham
#8. With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.
Jack Kerouac
#9. Guys are simple ... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
Dave Barry
#10. Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.
Christian Louboutin
#12. I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.
Wladimir Klitschko
#13. Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.
Bruce Lee
#14. I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.
Maya Moore
#15. I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.
Cameron Diaz
#16. Law of Attraction won't let you remove a thought. You cannot concentrate upon NOT thinking about something hard enough to stop thinking about it! For the more you decide you will not think about it, the more you think about it! ... Think about that.
Esther Hicks
#17. I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.
Paul Weller
#18. Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolf
#19. I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!
Jan Theuninck
#21. My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
Valentino Garavani
#22. I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.
Nikki Haley
#23. I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.
Charles Kingsley
#24. Long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT,
Thomas Paine
#25. Problem is, I'm not thinking very proper thoughts when I look at you. I keep thinking about messing you up. Getting dirty. Making you scream. Stuff like that.
Jennifer Probst
#26. When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.
Ernie Els
#27. Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.
Pearl S. Buck
#28. Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.
Leslie Lamport
#29. We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!
John Bytheway
#30. I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.
Jo Walton
#31. Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman
#32. Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy.
Faith Hunter
#33. I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.
Naomi Mitchison
#34. When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.
Alexis Taylor
#35. When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
David Horowitz
#36. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.
Thomas Merton
#37. I'm cancer-free today!
Cancer cannot keep up with my goals, enthusiasm, focus, passion, and determination. I will run you out of my body by not thinking about you, I will focus on what it will be like when you are gone.
Gregory Q. Cheek
#38. People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven.
Jonathan Kozol
#39. I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.
Michael Spence
#40. Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
Roald Dahl
#41. A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
Bruce Lee
#42. You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
Jay Maisel
#43. The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.
Edward Hirsch
#44. Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang?
Gordon Korman
#45. Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about ... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.
Simon Pegg
#46. New Rule: A dog is the only animal that can get you laid. No offense, parrot guy, but it's not gonna happen. When women see you, they're not thinking, "I bet that guy is interesting," they're thinking, "That bird better not shit on my dress.
Bill Maher
#47. Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be ... free.
Brandon Sanderson
#48. Author C. S. Lewis wrote a beautiful and accurate definition of humility: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself ... it is thinking of yourself less." "It is about feeling safe so you can focus on other people. It is not about being in fear and seeing yourself as worthless!
Kimberly Giles
#49. Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
Anthony McGowan
#50. When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
Hill Harper
#51. No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'
Whoopi Goldberg
#52. As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.
Wei Wu Wei
#53. If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
Howard G. Hendricks
#54. Jaime smiled. "I hope you're not thinking of taking the black on us, sweet brother."
Tyrion laughed. "What, me, celibate? The whores would go begging from Dorne to Casterly Rock. No, I just want to stand on top of the Wall and piss off the edge of the world.
George R R Martin
#55. She accused him of not thinking she was enough for him? The woman was entirely too much for him! She made him want to bellow with rage and hit things, then lock her in a room and kiss her senseless, until she gave in.
Sarah MacLean
#56. As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want ... maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future.
Laura Fitzgerald
#57. He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived. By now he was not thinking of anything in particular. Then he raised the revolver one last time, held it to his temple, and squeezed the trigger.
Stieg Larsson
#58. 6. Think about what you're not thinking about
Jeff Atwood
#59. The thought of one day not thinking of him at all is just too much for me. It feels like a betrayal to ever hope for such things. ~Livvie
C.J. Roberts
#60. There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.
Jennifer Egan
#61. I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!
Jim Crace
#62. Do you trust me Ana?"
Ana! "Yes,I do."I respond spontaneously, not thinking ... because it's true-I do trust him.
"Well,then"he looks relieved. "The rest of this stuff is just details"
"important details
E.L. James
#63. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
#64. 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.
Chris Evans
#65. Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can't think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you're not thinking hard enough.
Robin Brande
#66. I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.
Wayne Koestenbaum
#67. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
Christopher Isherwood
#68. I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#69. There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don't try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
Adyashanti
#70. I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.
Michael Schumacher
#71. When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
Alice Dellal
#72. But you know very well you are thinking of another they, and that he is not thinking of you
Charlotte Bronte
#73. Maybe this is the recipe for a happy life
not thinking about anything too hard, just going where the day takes you, trying to enjoy yourself, instead of analyzing every second.
Brenda Janowitz
#74. Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?
Jimmy Knepper
#75. Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.
Jane Green
#76. This is gospel-humility, blessed self-forgetfulness. Not thinking less of myself as in modern cultures, or less of myself as in traditional cultures. Simply thinking of myself less.
Timothy Keller
#77. If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.
Matt Chandler
#78. Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
Ralph Caplan
#79. Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world
Stephen Jay Gould
#80. I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.
Jamaica Kincaid
#81. How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.
Ilchi Lee
#82. Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all.
Michael Tsarion
#83. Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.
Ruth Ozeki
#84. As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun.
Ram Dass
#85. Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.'
'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: 'One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#86. If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
Alexander Wang
#87. Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.
Carolyn Mackler
#88. I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.
Justin Chon
#89. Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.
Rupert Hughes
#90. The minute the blonde grabs for my arm, I pull it up and hit her right in the nose. Bending over, tending to my move, the other two come at me, and soon as the other girls hand comes out close enough, I grab it and not thinking, bend and bite it.
Melyssa Winchester
#91. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
#92. If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place.
Esther Hicks
#93. I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
Lillian Hellman
#95. Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one.
Frederick Lenz
#96. Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.
James Dashner
#97. People may advice you, guide you and evaluate what you do, but bear in mind they can't think for you. You don't blame people for not thinking for you; blame yourself for depending on them to do what you must do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. I would not want to live in a world drained of all religious feeling. I am not thinking of faith but of that inner vibration, which, independent of any belief in particular, projects you into and sometimes above God.
Emil Cioran
#99. I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
Alex Honnold
#100. Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
Henry Ward Beecher
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