Quotes About Way Of Thinking

#1. People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Richard Pascale

#2. A myth ... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

Christopher Vogler

#3. For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

James Arthur

#4. Instead of allowing wealth and resources to change us, we must choose to allow God to change our way of thinking about wealth and resources

Jamie Gates

#5. To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#6. The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

Gilles Deleuze

#7. I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

Dave Smalley

#8. WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

Brian Grazer

#9. The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

Thomas Sankara

#10. And I love being with you. Your giggle, your silly grin, how you apply you personality in paste. The ambitions that I share. The way of thinking that I understand. The unconventional person, you are. You are the odd-shaped jigsaw puzzle that I'm looking to fit. And you completed me

Raditya Dika

#11. The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Marquis De Sade

#12. To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

Stephen King

#13. My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

Jenna Elfman

#14. We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.

Paul Ormerod

#15. Nationalities are a facist way of thinking aimed at forcing people into a narrow and stupid sense of belonging. It makes some people feel superior to others and perpetuates hatred and war.

Alaa Al Aswany

#16. The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Rem Koolhaas

#17. He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

Isaac Asimov

#18. Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.

Larry Winget

#19. If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.

Helmut Schmidt

#20. You can't go on this grand adventure with God and keep your old way of thinking.

Lysa TerKeurst

#21. To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#22. The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Mike Tyson

#23. To my way of thinking, no one can live in the grandest cathedral on earth, the Rocky Mountains, and not know that there's someone bigger than man in charge of the world.

Mary Connealy

#24. What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

Jeanette Winterson

#25. Certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

Marya Mannes

#26. I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

Gail Sheehy

#27. The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

Jeanette Winterson

#28. My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.

Jose Mujica

#29. We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#30. I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Dalai Lama

#31. To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Jean De La Bruyere

#32. In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Patti Smith

#33. In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

Isabel Allende

#34. I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

Carine Roitfeld

#35. Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

Sam Harris

#36. Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

Mahbod Seraji

#37. Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.

James R. Benn

#38. Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

David Crystal

#39. My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go,

Annabel Tollman

#40. The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

John Piper

#41. The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

Ginger Rogers

#42. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Simon Sinek

#43. That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.

James Buchanan

#44. Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#45. There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.

Dean Stockwell

#46. Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.

Sophia Amoruso

#47. I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Karen Armstrong

#48. Autism - a different way of thinking.

Tina J. Richardson

#49. It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

Barry Eisler

#50. I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.

Seymour Papert

#51. But sometimes in my reading I would discover new insights or have seemingly profound thoughts that would change my way of thinking.

Amy Harmon

#52. My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

David Antin

#53. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Seneca.

#54. I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.

George Carlin

#55. A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience ... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

John L'Heureux

#56. Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It's a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

J.A. Redmerski

#57. Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

Ali Banisadr

#58. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

James Dean

#59. I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age.

Hermann Hesse

#60. I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.

Paula Garces

#61. Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

William Faulkner

#62. If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.

Jean Nidetch

#63. Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

Ruth Ozeki

#64. I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different ... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

Meg Tilly

#65. I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

Brian Wilson

#66. The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy

Sunday Adelaja

#67. My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

John Lydon

#68. The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

Samuel R. Delany

#69. On that island was a lighthouse I had seen every single summer of my entire life and my mother, too, had seen it her entire life, and I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye.

Per Petterson

#70. Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

Albert Einstein

#71. The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Jennifer Hudson

#72. It's easier to act your way33 into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Warren Berger

#73. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking . I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Jenny Han

#74. Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

#75. Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Bill Gates

#76. All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.

Tracey Emin

#77. Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.

Nancy E. Turner

#78. O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

A Gentleman

#79. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

Damian Marley

#80. I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

B.o.B

#81. The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

Naomi Watts

#82. The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

Francis Schaeffer

#83. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.

Francois Lelord

#84. In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

Takashi Murakami

#85. As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That's all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#86. Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being, has the same way of thinking.

Da Xia

#87. We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#89. I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our childhood experience, partly in our way of thinking, partly in our brains, partly in our ways of handling emotions. It affects our whole being.

Richard O'Connor

#90. Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#91. Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#92. I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.

Shameik Moore

#93. Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

Max Bill

#94. Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

Reba McEntire

#95. Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) x Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

Tom Rath

#96. I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

Alan Lewis

#97. Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.

Robin Hobb

#98. The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

Bella Pollen

#99. Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

Christian Lous Lange

#100. It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

Sarah Dessen