Top 100 Thinking Is Quotes
#1. Ecosystem thinking is systematic thinking about ecosystem and environment.
Pearl Zhu
#2. The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas Sowell
#3. You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!
U.G. Krishnamurti
#4. The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#5. A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
Norman Vincent Peale
#6. I want to have a huge album that's, like, 18 or 19 tracks. I hate those albums where there's only, like, ten tracks, and you're left thinking, 'Is this it?'
Eva Simons
#7. Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths
Freeman Dyson
#8. Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
Tobias Wolff
#9. Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
Douglas Leone
#10. Thinking ... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas
Rudolf Steiner
#11. Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems
Nelson Mandela
#12. Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any ... thing.
William S. Burroughs
#13. Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions
Vasilios Karpos
#14. If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come . . . with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.
Janette Oke
#16. Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
#17. Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.
Alexander Gustafsson
#18. I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?
Joely Richardson
#19. People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony De Mello
#21. Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
Edward De Bono
#23. Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
Jim Carrey
#26. Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Jalal Talabani
#27. With the right Mindset ... effective thinking is automatic.
Tony Dovale
#28. Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.
Michael Jackson
#29. As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital.
Ray Kurzweil
#30. Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
Edward De Bono
#31. Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
Oscar Wilde
#32. The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all.
Kevin Myers
#33. In my book (and this is my book!) magical thinking is the alchemy that you can use to visualize and project yourself into the professional and personal life that you want.
Sophia Amoruso
#34. Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.
Pearl Zhu
#35. Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking what are the consequences that follow from them.
L. Susan Stebbing
#36. I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
Chester Brown
#37. Critical thinking is a lost 'art' that has yet to be found, if it is even being looked for.
R. Alan Woods
#38. The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.
Albert Mohler
#39. Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
Herman Melville
#40. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Suzanne Collins
#41. My thinking is this: Her original mother, she did what she must. I, her in-between mother, I did what I must. That Japanese couple, they also did what they must. One day, this little girl will grow up, and she will be doing what she must. So you see, we all do what we must
Amy Tan
#42. I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.
Anthony Burgess
#43. Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Edward De Bono
#44. My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.
Bill Maher
#45. To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#46. Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.
Ehabib
#47. I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
Steven Pinker
#48. While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling that we call "I," and this is the string upon which all our states of suffering and dissatisfaction are strung.
Sam Harris
#49. Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.
Orson Scott Card
#50. I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.
Paulo Freire
#51. What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in
Simon Barnes
#52. When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.
Bob Proctor
#53. But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#54. The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#55. Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
Plato
#57. 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.
#59. No one ... can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time
Karen Horney
#61. My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
David Antin
#62. My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
William James
#63. I believe one thing powerfully- that the only creative thing our species has is the individual, lonely mind ... The group ungoverned by individual thinking is a horrible destructive principle.
John Steinbeck
#64. Thinking is seeing ... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
Honore De Balzac
#65. All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson
#66. Hybrid Thinking is a set of interdisciplinary and integrative thinking processes we will need to solve many of today's complex problems.
Pearl Zhu
#68. To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.
Alistair Begg
#69. Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.
Conrad Dobler
#70. Thinking is the oil which lubricates the action we undertake.
Aporva Kala
#71. One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.
Damon Lindelof
#72. To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
#73. Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it's required.
Whitney Tilson
#75. I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
Harry Callahan
#76. Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
Aristotle.
#77. Its not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living
Anonymous
#79. In a broader sense, Systems Thinking is a path to greater awareness.
Pearl Zhu
#80. Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
Maxwell Maltz
#81. What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.
Eric Hoffer
#82. The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work
Brian Tracy
#83. Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.
Clive Barker
#84. People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action ...
Moshe Feldenkrais
#85. Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.
Narendra Modi
#86. Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
Sue Grafton
#87. People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.
Marty Rubin
#88. The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
Havelock Ellis
#89. People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it
David Allen
#90. Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
Lloyd Alexander
#91. You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.
Amy Poehler
#92. Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.
Marianne Williamson
#93. All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.
Vilem Flusser
#94. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
Eckhart Tolle
#95. Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
Jamais Cascio
#96. Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!
Sukarno
#97. Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
Cecil Purdy
#98. Negative thinking is always expensive
dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically
hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
Peter McWilliams
#99. In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.
Shinzo Abe
#100. Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.
Pearl Zhu
