Top 100 Think Differently Quotes
#1. Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
Tom Vilsack
#2. I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.
Shannen Doherty
#3. I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
Dick Cavett
#4. Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized
Richard Branson
#5. Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
Oscar Pistorius
#6. When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.
Travis Bradberry
#7. I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.
Beth Simone Noveck
#8. I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
Ted Allen
#9. "Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"
"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."
"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
Hans Christian Andersen
#10. The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
Robert Jordan
#12. Yes, we like to think of our children as Macintosh computers operating in a world full of PCs; they get the same answers but process things differently.
Gina Gallagher
#13. You don't see the world the way other people do. And when you let your guard down, the way you think, the way you say things ... you make people look at things differently. You make people feel things.
Priscilla Glenn
#14. Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
Seth Godin
#15. 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
#16. We are the visionaries, inventors, and artists. We think differently, see the world differently, and solve problems differently. It is from this difference that the dyslexic brain derives its brilliance.
Tiffany Sunday
#17. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
Eliot Spitzer
#18. I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
Pedro Almodovar
#19. Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.
Paulo Coelho
#20. My team can't agree on our first design. So, your team is made up of dynamic, creative minds that think differently. Congratulations!
Greg Nudelman
#21. Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a culture of conformity, that's braver than it sounds.
Mary Roach
#22. I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
Mattie Stepanek
#23. 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
#24. I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
Samuel R. Delany
#25. 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
#26. I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
Bill Plympton
#27. I think we have to own the fears that we
have of each other, and then, in some
practical way, some daily way, figure
out how to see people differently
than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker
#28. I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.
Mariah Carey
#29. I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
Beth Gibbons
#30. NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don't think the same - their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.
Greg Prato
#31. I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.
Chris Pine
#32. Great quotes do not come from great people. They come from ordinary people who think differently.
Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
#33. I think we love differently every day. Like the guy who said you can't stand in a river at exactly the same place twice. Today I love you differently than yesterday, or will tomorrow.
Jonathan Carroll
#34. The funny thing is, I sometimes think my mother loves my father more than he loves her. Does that make sense?"
"Yeah, I guess so. Maybe. Is love a contest?"
"What does that mean?"
"Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that's all that matters.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#35. At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.
Herta Muller
#36. Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
Luke Evans
#37. Doubtless it was so, and she could take no revenge, for he was not altered, or not for the worse. She had already acknowledged it to herself, and she could not think differently, let him think of her as he would. No:
Jane Austen
#38. I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.
Brody Jenner
#39. It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.
Sachin Tendulkar
#41. As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
David LaChapelle
#42. We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.
Steve Earle
#43. It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
Daniel Kahneman
#44. I'd love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn't bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree's.
Gyula Krudy
#45. I think you still have to think differently to buy an Apple computer," he said. "The people who buy them do think different. They are the creative spirits in this world, and they're out to change the world. We make tools for those kinds of people.
Walter Isaacson
#46. With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'
David Schwimmer
#48. People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
Joel Osteen
#49. I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
Steve Vai
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.
Joel Silver
#55. Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster
#56. 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
#57. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
#58. You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.
Brent Scowcroft
#59. I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.
Michael Gurian
#60. Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
Sara Sheridan
#61. We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin
#62. No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
Karl Lagerfeld
#63. Let's shake hands & reach across those party lines, you got ur friends just like I got mine, we might think a little differently but we got a lot n common u will see, we're just like you....ONLY PRETTIER!!
Miranda Lambert
#64. I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.
Nikki Haley
#65. People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.
Bruce McCulloch
#66. 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.
#67. I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.
Isabel Allende
#68. Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
Cate Blanchett
#69. I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.
Patti Page
#70. One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.
Thomas J. Stanley
#71. My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#72. Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.
Chris Guillebeau
#73. 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
#74. I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.
David Dinkins
#75. Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently.
Matthew Donnelly
#76. I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.
Jim George
#77. There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.
Satya Nadella
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
Peter Diamandis
#82. I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.
Silvan Shalom
#83. Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
Mehmet Oz
#84. 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
#85. In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
Saint Ignatius
#86. questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently.
Warren Berger
#87. PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
Indra Nooyi
#88. The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.
Paul Arden
#89. If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.
Lloyd Dorfman
#90. 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
#91. I think of marriage differently. A Companionship of like minds. A tie that binds, yes, but in the binding comes strength. A lifetime with your dearest friend as your truest and best companion. That is what it can be. I believe that.
Julianne Donaldson
#92. There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.
Marina And The Diamonds
#93. What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.
Mary E. Pearson
#94. We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
Richard Branson
#95. 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
#96. If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.
Joel Spolsky
#97. What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.
Dick Dale
#98. 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
#99. Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
Daniel Radcliffe
#100. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
Myles Munroe
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