Top 100 Think Things Quotes
#1. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
H.L. Mencken
#2. I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.
George M. Humphrey
#3. I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.
Glen Duncan
#5. We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.
Vladimir Voinovich
#7. A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.
Vladimir Voinovich
#8. Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
Kym Whitley
#9. I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.
Jean Craighead George
#10. I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.
Charisma Carpenter
#11. Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.
Paula McLain
#12. I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through ...
Ted Turner
#13. Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#14. Just when you think things can't get any naughtier... they do!
Scarlett Avery
#15. I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.
Tom Bennett
#16. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!
Jim Warner
#17. I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
Robert Rauschenberg
#18. I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Sela Ward
#19. An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Preston Manning
#20. But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.
Francis Bacon
#21. I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.
Betty Hutton
#22. Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are. A
Paramahansa Yogananda
#23. In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.
Jennifer Egan
#24. Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.
Pete Docter
#25. In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.
Deepak Chopra
#26. Death by hanging ... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
Hans Frank
#27. I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
Chris Hughes
#28. He had no idea what he was in for, but he knew that he hadn't liked anything that had happened so far and didn't think things were likely to change.
Douglas Adams
#29. I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.
Laurel Nakadate
#30. I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.
Andrew VanWyngarden
#31. I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one thing
I do care about you.
H.M. Ward
#32. People never think things that are true are funny.
Melissa Kantor
#33. I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
J.J. Abrams
#34. I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.
Woody Harrelson
#35. I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate.
Taylor Swift
#36. Doesn't matter what you believe in. Do you think things will stop or change because you've forgotten what the bogeyman looks like? Maybe that's what pissed it off, so to speak. It doesn't like being forgotten. So it decided to shake things up a little.
Jeyn Roberts
#37. What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.
Justin Broadrick
#38. If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
Byron Dorgan
#39. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
Rachel Weisz
#40. Should, is the worst word
in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're
not, they're disappointed.
Candace Bushnell
#41. Movie people think things are movies, and authors think things should be movies because, up until recently, movies have been the jewel in the crown. But, that seems to be changing.
Chris Albrecht
#42. People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.
Idries Shah
#43. Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Ray Bradbury
#44. I don't think things ought to be done because you are able to do them. I think they should be done because you ought to do them.
T.H. White
#45. She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
L.M. Montgomery
#46. I just think this whole thing about not wearing anything twice, I just don't understand it. I think things should be worn. You should bond with your clothing. It should be yours.
Alexandra Kotur
#47. I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
Clifford Geertz
#48. I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing
righteous indignation.
Anzia Yezierska
#49. I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
Andre Gide
#50. Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.
Thomas Sowell
#51. I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.
Nikki Reed
#52. I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.
Rebecca Stead
#53. Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.
Robert Herjavec
#54. Then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don't think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So,
Richard Ford
#55. What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.
Epictetus
#56. He's not like you, Tod. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, you tend to think things through, but Nash is ruled by his heart -
Rachel Vincent
#57. I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out.
George Foreman
#58. Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
Adam Mansbach
#59. Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things though. Never regret your mistakes as there's a reason for everything.Grudges are toxic and heavy to bear. Let them go, learn from everything and continue to grow.
Karen Gibbs
#60. Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Feeney in Naked in Death
J.D. Robb
#61. But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.
Jason Schwartzman
#62. I just think things should work properly
James Dyson
#63. Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.
Ilchi Lee
#64. God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
J.I. Packer
#65. You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.
Vashti Bunyan
#66. If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, "Hey, I had a nice time, but I don't think things are going to work out between us." Only you can help fight ghosting.
Mallory Ortberg
#67. Sometimes I think things happen for a reason ... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.
Lauren Blakely
#68. When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.
Lesley Nicol
#69. I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It's frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It's as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can't get you out.
Christine Feehan
#70. You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.
Harvey MacKay
#71. Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents ... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.
Richard Simmons
#72. I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.
Catherine Clark
#73. We like it the way it is. We're enjoying the oscillating balances, the ongoing war between good and evil, the wonderful small triumphs of the soul. Perhaps it's too soon to end all that. Perhaps we need some more time to think things out.
Mark Helprin
#74. I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not ... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.
Wylie Dufresne
#75. I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
Randolph Scott
#76. We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.
Cristian Machado
#77. I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
Fred Frith
#78. You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.
Calvin Johnson
#79. The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process ... Because photographers ... think things through and ... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.
Sam Abell
#80. I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.
Liz Phair
#82. It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#83. When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'
Joyce Meyer
#84. But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
David Cronenberg
#85. So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.
Glenn Close
#86. You know how it is. You make up your mind about something, and then you stop seeing anything that doesn't fit the way you already think things are.
Ellen O'Connell
#87. The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.
Gillian Jacobs
#88. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
#89. I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
Twyla Tharp
#90. I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that's all.
Anna Kamienska
#91. Many people are probably better off avoiding therapists and using the resources and support available to us in everyday life. But therapy can be a chance to think things through with a professional in a calm, supportive and nonjudgmental atmosphere, and that can be helpful.
Peter Kinderman
#92. The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
Susane Colasanti
#93. As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.
Ron Jaworski
#94. Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.
Ricky Ponting
#95. It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.
Larry McMurtry
#96. Sometimes it's better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time.
Catherine Clark
#97. I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
Kara Swisher
#98. Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.
Martin Lawrence
#99. I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
Erica Jong
#100. The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.
Clint Eastwood
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