Quotes About Thinking Differently

#1. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

David Suzuki

#2. It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

Robert Kiyosaki

#3. You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

Dennis Farina

#4. People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

Peter Gay

#5. Thinking differently means you can work out problems in an unusual way. Just because we may do things differently it does not mean it is wrong.

Tina J. Richardson

#6. Thinking differently is my strength.

Carine Roitfeld

#7. The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. Thinking differently is the key to improvement.

Eraldo Banovac

#10. When you're doing all you can and "what more?" seems an impossible task, try thinking differently, step outside your box, and open your mind to solutions that were there all the time. Solutions you just couldn't see. Act

Roger Connors

#11. The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.

Max McKeown

#12. If you are not thinking differently, you are not exercising your freedom.

Debasish Mridha

#13. People say "the Americans" or "the United States," as if it was a kind of bloc. It's not. There's a lot of people thinking differently from other people in the U.S. This is very interesting to me and very important.

Costa-Gavras

#14. Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Tom Vilsack

#15. Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

Richard Branson

#16. That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#17. Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Seth Godin

#18. I think there are definitely things over the last year-and-a-half we would have done differently, ... I think we've at least learned as we go and hopefully we don't make the same mistake next time ... I think if I said anything different to you, I'd be removed from reality.

Paul DePodesta

#19. I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.

Kiefer Sutherland

#20. I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

Chris Hardwick

#21. It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

Sachin Tendulkar

#22. If you want to be rich, think big, think differently.

Robert Kiyosaki

#23. If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

Kim Kardashian

#24. I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things.
They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects.
If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker ... then you
have to think differently.

Mark Weiser

#25. Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.

Marianne Williamson

#26. You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#27. Once people have tried to do something they think is uniquely innovative and it doesn't work, they're actually now more valuable because they know what not to try the next time, or what to try differently.

Christopher Galvin

#28. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Stephen Jay Gould

#29. Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently.

Terry Hoeppner

#30. For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Thomas J. Stanley

#32. Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.

Chris Guillebeau

#33. But kids think differently than adults think. Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally.

Jesse Eisenberg

#34. Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.

Alexis De Veaux

#35. You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.

Robert Greene

#36. Mitt Romney we think is going run again. He says he has no plans to run, but he said if he did run, this time things would turn out differently. Yes they would. This time he would get his ass kicked by a woman.

Bill Maher

#37. People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.

Meghan Daum

#38. In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Nicholas Sparks

#39. I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people

Matt Bomer

#40. If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Joel Spolsky

#41. I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

Roger Ailes

#42. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.

Myles Munroe

#43. when you see the problem as a more of you and less of people, you will find a distinctive solution to the recurring hurdles. Attitudinal and mindset change can cause a great change

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#44. In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.

Barbara Mikulski

#45. The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Garth Nix

#46. Most outside experts disagreed. "Maybe it's time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently," Business Week wrote in a story headlined "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work.

Walter Isaacson

#47. Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Aman Jassal

#48. What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.

Arnulf Overland

#49. First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

PJ Harvey

#50. I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

Rose McGowan

#51. Some people say Dylan Thomas mischievous, he's a child, and other people say he's quite demonic. I don't think we should dictate about him, if that's your view of him, that's wonderful, but it's great to know that other people think differently.

Keira Knightley

#52. I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.

Jack Black

#53. The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.

Whitney M. Young

#54. I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

Douglas Coupland

#55. I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Edan Lepucki

#56. Hardly anybody thinks about typing in their social security number as ID. Hardly anybody pays attention to the myriad of security cameras. There isn't anybody that worked on this show that doesn't look at security cameras differently than when they started.

Remi Aubuchon

#57. The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

Andy Andrews

#58. I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.

Brendon Urie

#59. There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Walter Savage Landor

#60. It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing

Benny Carter

#61. I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#62. It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

Gail Zappa

#63. The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

Albert Einstein

#64. In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing
all working together to create the world that we want.

Susan Collins

#65. I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.

Neko Case

#66. Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

Reggie Fils-Aime

#67. [A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately.

Christiane Northrup

#68. I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religion. I think religion has been pulled along by reason and that's why we read The Bible now so differently, even believers.

Rebecca Goldstein

#69. Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers.

Roger Goodell

#70. I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

Daniel Waters

#71. Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making.

Matt Mullenweg

#72. Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it

Barack Obama

#73. I don't think a baby will change my career because I don't plan to go about my career any differently. I'm gonna work hard because I love to work, and I love what I do. I think a baby will just add more happiness to it.

Tamar Braxton

#74. Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

George M. Church

#75. It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

Edward De Bono

#76. If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.

Miroslav Volf

#77. I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!

Lisa Marie Presley

#78. I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.

Liza Cody

#79. Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Oprah Winfrey

#80. I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

Laura Linney

#81. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.

Angelina Jolie

#82. Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Ewan McGregor

#83. I think we have to change our thinking and the music industry has to shift and look at how people are acquiring their music now. They want it differently. They're getting it in a different way and you just have to adjust.

Warryn Campbell

#84. Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

John Fowles

#85. I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.

Bill Shorten

#86. We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.

Hal Elrod

#87. I spent the first few months under the full weight of those regrets, thinking of a thousand different things I would've done differently had I known they were going to be the last.

Jessi Kirby

#88. When you're married with kids, you just think differently.

Larry The Cable Guy

#89. I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.

Michael Rapaport

#90. I don't get too upset or bent out of shape from things that go on on the field. But I think that you always want to try to keep it classy. You don't want to do any stupid fouls, and sometimes - sometimes the game gets to you; people react differently.

Carli Lloyd

#91. We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.

Thomas Friedman

#92. My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

Michelle Obama

#93. I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.

Roselee Goldberg

#94. No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.

Esther Hicks

#95. At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

J.P. Donleavy

#96. I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things.

Tory Burch

#97. The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else ... They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

John Eliot

#98. All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Dalai Lama

#99. I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.

Grace Lee Boggs

#100. It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.

Mika.