Top 100 To Think Quotes
#1. For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
Lee Child
#2. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.
David Levithan
#3. The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.
Jimmy Wales
#4. You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.
Stephanie Miller
#5. You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
James Patterson
#6. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
James Beattie
#7. There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.
Stetson Kennedy
#8. Never disagree with anyone; agree to think differently.
Debasish Mridha
#9. It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
Dwight Schultz
#10. I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.
Henry Miller
#11. I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
Luke Wilson
#12. We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards.
Marvin Kalb
#13. If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.
Margaret Kilgallen
#14. All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.
Norm MacDonald
#15. I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Jonny Wilkinson
#16. Whenever I am worried about anything," said this guy Ben,"I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort.
Elif Batuman
#17. They never stop to think: I'm here. I am the result of everything that happened and will happen, but I'm here.
Paulo Coelho
#18. God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.
Marcus Garvey
#19. I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.
John Brandon
#20. Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality.
Christina Engela
#21. I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.
A. J. Cook
#22. That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.
Ruby Dee
#23. I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.
Ray Anderson
#24. I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad.
Esther Earl
#25. I wasn't ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn't that I wasn't right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn't right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn't come easy for, someone like me.
Sarah Dessen
#26. Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Edith Wharton
#27. Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.
Ken Robinson
#28. I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
Ned Vizzini
#29. Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
Henry A. Kissinger
#30. Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don't matter, that I'll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#31. Walking along, I occasionally had to stop by the side of the road to spit out the mucus that kept rising in my throat. It rather pleased me to think of the malignant tubercle bacilli that I had brought from Japan being scorched to death under the tropical sun.
Shohei Ooka
#32. It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
Simone De Beauvoir
#33. I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not ... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
Gary David Goldberg
#34. To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
Samuel Johnson
#35. I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.
Cassandra Clare
#36. You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."
I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of
when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.
V.C. Andrews
#37. We always think we have more time and that is the wrong way to think, because time is something we never have enough of.
Lindy Zart
#38. I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
Tahir Shah
#39. I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.
Cherry Jones
#40. I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham
#41. Only by helping yourself first can you help the poor. Only by changing yourself first, can you change their condition. You achieve this by first removing from your mind any thoughts of poverty, for to think of something is to invoke it.
Stephen Richards
#42. I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.
Markelle Grabo
#43. It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
Isaac Asimov
#44. We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
Bertrand Russell
#45. When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.
Jerome Lawrence
#46. I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#47. I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.
(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)
Charlaine Harris
#48. Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Margaret Heffernan
#49. I don't particularly want to think of your funeral because I'd much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs.
Agatha Christie
#50. Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future for yourself.
Brian Tracy
#51. My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.
Cass Sunstein
#52. I was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
F Scott Fitzgerald
#53. Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.
Jesse Eisenberg
#54. Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain.
Seth Shostak
#55. I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.
Andrew Hudgins
#56. I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.
Marilyn Yalom
#57. We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
George Osborne
#58. Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
Chris Murray
#59. I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America.
Chris Matakas
#60. One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.
John Grisham
#61. We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.
Christian Serratos
#62. Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
Nicholas Negroponte
#63. A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.
Bette Greene
#64. The reprehensible presumption of individuals who attempted to think for themselves in matters connected with religion, or to be guided by their own interpretations of Scripture,
Anne Bronte
#65. That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
Joe Torre
#66. People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.
Zoe Heller
#67. It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
H.L. Mencken
#68. Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#69. Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Mary Astell
#70. Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#71. You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
Dick Cavett
#72. I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
James A. Baldwin
#73. A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
Jason Katims
#74. Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.
Francine Rivers
#75. There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.
Irene Gonzalez Frei
#76. What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.
Gloria Steinem
#77. I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.
Beth Orton
#78. I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
Gary Kovacs
#79. We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.
Oren Lyons
#80. She did not believe in a benign higher being. She could not. She had suffered too much to think of a heavenly force in the sky that would let such evil walk the earth without lifting a hand to stop it.
David Baldacci
#81. As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
Peter Jennings
#82. This exaggerated power comes not from the size of Natick's research budget, which is relatively small, but from the simple fact of having an overarching goal, a long-term plan, and relentless focus - which, come to think of it, may be the three traits in life most important to making things happen.
Anastacia Marx De Salcedo
#83. Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his chest hurt to think about it.
Tabitha Suzuma
#84. If you are trying to think ahead musically, it is not going to help you. It is better to ignore what is happening melodically and just look at the little dots coming at you and the corresponding colors and try to do it at the right time.
Chris Cornell
#85. I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.
Diahann Carroll
#86. I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
Teju Cole
#87. Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.
Tony Hsieh
#88. As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.
Frederick Lenz
#89. There is balance in taste, too, and an unbalanced taste can't captivate the eater. In order to create harmony, you have to think about balance, and to get balance in the kitchen you have to follow seemingly insignificant but crucial rules.
Kyung-ran Jo
#90. If you're not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn't it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?
Glenn Haybittle
#91. The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#92. MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view - and most important, to take pleasure in listening.
Joanne Lipman
#93. God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us,
is to be at home.
George MacDonald
#94. I live in a peaceful world because I choose to think loving and peaceful thoughts.
Louise Hay
#95. He tried not to think about the consequences of a failure. Tried not to think about the fact that he still held Beldre hostage. Tried not to worry about the fact that
Brandon Sanderson
#96. And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye.
Lauren Myracle
#98. We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
Diane Arbus
#99. Devastated ... grief-stricken. You were alive, but the way you looked ... I didn't think you'd ever recover. And it tore me apart to think of that happening to you so young.
Richelle Mead
#100. It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn
