Top 100 Thinking You Quotes
#1. I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.
Rick Riordan
#2. If you keep on thinking the way you've always been thinking, you'll keep on getting what you've always been getting!"
Is that enough?
Bob Schultz
#3. The only reason you will get hired is because the person hiring you believes you can help them solve their problem. Stop thinking you're "filling an opening;" you're not. You're actually solving a company's problem, and by solving their problem, they will solve yours.
Mayowa O Ajisafe
#4. There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Criss Jami
#5. With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
David LaChapelle
#6. Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.
A.A. Milne
#7. I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.
Nia Long
#8. Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.
Rick Riordan
#9. Thinking you can earn eternal life by just reading the Bible a lot is like staring at the windshield while driving, hoping you'll get where you want to go. The windshield isn't there to be looked at; it is designed to be looked through.
Jefferson Bethke
#10. You're better than this, Adrian. Whatever the reason, you're better than it. Don't trick yourself into thinking you're weaker than you are
Richelle Mead
#11. Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [ ... ] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#12. Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.
Erin Andrews
#13. The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.
Criss Jami
#14. Food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.
Joshua Donellan
#15. So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?
Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.
Carsten Jensen
#16. If you smile, even if you're feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you're happy
Candace Bushnell
#17. 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
#18. You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.
Brian Bosworth
#19. Thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.
Joanna Russ
#20. No, I'd better sit on to the end,' I went on thinking; 'you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away. Nothing will induce me to go. I'll go on sitting here and drinking to the end, on purpose, as a sign that I don't think you of the slightest consequence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.
Alison Gopnik
#22. WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.
Jenny Holzer
#23. If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.
Joan Didion
#24. Imagine if we all walked around looking at strangers and thinking, You could have been my son or daughter. Imagine.
Karin Evans
#25. Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
John Phillips
#26. What is that smell? (Nick)
(It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.)
Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I'm human. (Mark)
Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you're sane. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat
Tamora Pierce
#28. If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.
Srikumar Rao
#29. You
" she chokes on a sob and draws back. "You're scared? What a thing to say. You had me thinking you were dead.
Lauren DeStefano
#30. I'm telling you, you'd like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer's. The other day, he was going off on unaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, and I was thinking, 'You know who this sounds like? Melbourne.'" -- Trey
Richelle Mead
#31. She returned to him, pressed his cheeks in her hands. "My eccentric old man, thinking you could fly."
"This time, only my words will fly," he said solemnly. They both cracked up. Almost twenty years together and if blazing heat had turned to warmth, humor, it was less wild but easier to sustain.
Lauren Groff
#32. Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.
Mark Twain
#34. You were thinking you had a chance to do what you always do," said James with kindness I didn't deserve. "You were going to give yourself up in order to save the people you love. It's a bit of a problem with you, you know.
Aimee Carter
#35. In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.
Harry Gilbert
#36. But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.
Ronald Perelman
#37. I have found out all I need to know, it's pretty self explanatory. You wanted a laugh; trick two girls into thinking you liked them. Bravo, you succeeded. Now go have a celebratory drink with your frat buddies, I said, spitting rain out at him with each word I spoke.
Nicole Gulla
#38. The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.
Robert M. Pirsig
#39. I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.
Michael Ian Black
#40. I was thinking you could come out here for breakfast. I'll cook. "
"You cook?"
"Breakfast."
"You're bribing me with breakfast to tell you why I left Colorado?"
Eric Shrugged. "You're bribing me with lunch just so to get me alone at my house.
Bernadette Marie
#41. When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.
Byron Katie
#42. Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
Jeannette Walls
#43. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and never make you truly whole.
Amy Poehler
#44. Now is the time ... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.
Ron Atchison
#45. Until you change a man's thinking, you cannot change his life, you cannot change his state and therefore cannot change his estate.
The extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing. How far your vision can go is how much you can possess.
Chris Oyakhilome
#46. I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you've never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere.
Courtney Giardina
#47. The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.
Scott Turow
#48. The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#49. Lindsay was a teenager...at the height of that weird mixture of thinking you know everything and caring too much about how others perceive you.
J.D. Vance
#50. Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
Harri Holkeri
#51. I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.
Michael Jackson
#52. If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
Banana Yoshimoto
#53. If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. If you were never sad, you would not know how it feels to be happy. If you never had negative thoughts, you would not learn the power of positive thinking. You have to experience life to understand life.
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#54. If the track is tough and the hill is rough,
THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein
#55. She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.
Susan Breen
#56. As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.
Lydia Leonard
#57. When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.
Andy Stanley
#58. There is a fine line that separates thinking you know something, and actually knowing the truth. It is a line as thin as a strand of hair, and it's called hope.
Jason Pellegrini
#59. At a certain age [ ... ] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.
Mark Jenkins
#60. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya Angelou
#61. I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Albert Brooks
#62. Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
Anthony McGowan
#63. Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.
Meredith Brooks
#64. With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom
John De Ruiter
#65. When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, "You're Jackie Chan?" When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.
Jackie Chan
#66. It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.
John Wooden
#67. If you grow up with a wholly negative self-image, thinking you're some kind of reject, an unlovable savage, you think you deserve to be beaten.
E.L. James
#68. I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.
David Cone
#69. All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.
Jill Shalvis
#70. If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump
#71. What is really important is what you learn after thinking you know it all.
Waite Phillips
#72. More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.
Jojo Moyes
#74. When you delete impossible from your thinking, you give yourself permission to imagine, to believe, to try, and to accomplish phenomenal things.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#76. It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
Lupita Nyong'o
#77. Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.
Craig Johnson
#78. How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.
John Lennox
#79. Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.
M T Anderson
#80. In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could
hear, she said, I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.
Julie Garwood
#81. Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free.
Greg Giraldo
#82. If you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are.
Sam Harris
#83. God, I don't know what lies ahead or what will happen next. But you're going to be there, aren't you? Even when the world tricks me into thinking you're not. Things are going to be different. *I'm* going to be different. And I'm going to get it right this time.
Jenny B. Jones
#84. And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#85. Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.
Sergei Dovlatov
#86. Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know.
Mike Erre
#87. If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Will Rogers
#88. To broaden your thinking, you have to expand the scope of your mind and imagination
Wogu Donald
#89. To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.
Asger Jorn
#90. Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
Cam Newton
#91. Customers don't distinguish between you and the company you work for. To the customer's way of thinking, you are the company.
Ron Zemke
#92. L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
Julian Casablancas
#93. Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
John C. Maxwell
#94. If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly
#95. I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.
Wayne Coyne
#96. You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.
Bryce Wilson
#97. William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it and I remember thinking, "You could put a gun to my head and I wouldn't put this book down." I loved that feeling - and want to give it others.
Harlan Coben
#98. Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
Chris Hughes
#99. There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.
Gautama Buddha
#100. The worst part about losing someone you love - besides the agony of never getting to see them again - are the things you never said. The unsaid stalks you, mocks you for thinking you had all the time in the world. None of us do.
Karen Marie Moning
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