Top 100 We Think Quotes
#1. I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.
Amy Bloom
#2. What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.
James Bryan Smith
#3. As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
Steven Sinofsky
#4. Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Tom Robbins
#5. Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#7. We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.
Darren Flutie
#8. We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
Robert Webb
#9. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
A.W. Tozer
#10. Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.
Fred Rogers
#11. Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is ... By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life
reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.
Max DePree
#12. Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?
Joseph Sobran
#13. Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.
Walter Schloss
#14. None of us is as good as we think we are. Every one of us is more than we think we can be.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#15. What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.
Stanley Donen
#16. A Grape-Nuts ad dealt with warfare, but of the schoolyard variety, extolling the cereal's value in helping children prevail in fistfights: Husky bodies and stout nerves depend - more often than we think - on the food eaten.
Erik Larson
#17. So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
Cynthia Hand
#18. What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#19. When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.
Donald Miller
#20. How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?
Jim Beaver
#21. What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.
Josh Brolin
#23. The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is really fear.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. We think we are intelligent but need an artificial intelligence to really function intelligently!
Alex Pusineri
#25. Compassion is the key to a successful relationship because by means of compassion we can access the innermost needs of the other. When we are aware of those needs, we can begin to communicate and not just profess what we think we know and demand that others change because we want them to.
Sharon Gannon
#26. With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
Marianne Williamson
#27. I wish that we would not fight for landscapes that remind us of who we think we are. I wish we would fight, instead, for landscapes buzzing and glowing with life in all its variousness.
Helen Macdonald
#28. The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
Jasper Fforde
#29. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
Gautama Buddha
#30. We have everything within us for our greatness and for our destruction. It comes back to what we think about.
Tony Curl
#31. Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world ... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.
Kirk Cameron
#32. We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.
Janet Macunovich
#33. Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
Douglas Horton
#34. Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
Italo Calvino
#35. One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy
Scott Simon
#36. Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured ...
Bram Stoker
#37. We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.
John Steinbeck
#38. Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.
Blaise Pascal
#39. We think in one language and feel in another.
Marty Rubin
#40. Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan Quayle
#41. I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.
Al Davis
#42. I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
Natalie Goldberg
#43. It's quite simple. Death isn't what we think it is. It isn't life which ends but time which stops.
Henri Riviere
#44. Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
Timothy Keller
#45. Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
Fernando Pessoa
#46. We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy.
Wayne Dyer
#48. We've lost the sense of our own divinity. We think that we're separate from God, but we can't be. We must be like what we came from, and we came from an infinite, loving, kind, beautiful Source. We've forgotten that.
Wayne Dyer
#49. It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.
Nora Ephron
#50. The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo
#51. The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.
Tamara Keith
#52. Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.
Chaka Fattah
#53. Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.
Connie Chung
#54. Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.
Julian Baggini
#55. All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice.
Bell Hooks
#56. We think too much of production, and too little of consumption. One result is that we attach too little importance to enjoyment and simple happiness, and that we do not judge production by the pleasure that it gives to the consumer.
Bertrand Russell
#57. As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.
Robin Williams
#58. If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.
Francis Maude
#59. Knowing that wishes don't always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there's a really good chance they will manifest in some way.
Alyson Noel
#61. What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.
Sarah J. Maas
#62. When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.
Toni Sorenson
#64. We often take these social rituals for granted, but we do so at our own peril. They are more fragile than we think. Like fine crystal, they break easily and are hard to glue back together.
Carmela Soprano
#65. The way we think of and respond to God is the most practical thing we do. In matters of everyday practicality, nothing, absolutely nothing, takes precedence over God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#66. There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.
Paul Horgan
#67. Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.
Nido R. Qubein
#68. What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
Edward De Bono
#69. We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
Goran Persson
#70. Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.
David F. Wells
#71. We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#72. When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.
Christopher Poole
#73. We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of humans cooperating. Those groups are organisms in their own rights.
Ramez Naam
#74. Consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late
Alexandra Potter
#75. Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.
Nhat Hanh
#76. Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.
Newt Gingrich
#77. Kitsch is the translation of the stupidity of received ideas into the language of beauty and feeling. It moves us to tears of compassion for ourselves, for the banality of what we think and feel.
Milan Kundera
#78. We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.
David Miliband
#79. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
Brother Lawrence
#80. Being a safe place is a metaphor for transformation. It is designed to help us be intentional in seeking to be transformed so that we think, speak, and act more like Jesus, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else.
Michael Bradley
#81. The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
Albert Einstein
#82. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.
Jeffrey Meyers
#83. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?
Matthew McConaughey
#84. I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.
Neil Gaiman
#85. It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.
James P. Hogan
#86. We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of ... we are afraid of what we think.
Michael Neill
#87. Some things in our lives, we think about, we hope for, we dream of, we half believe. But some we just know. And what I know, Laura, is that if you practise and learn to play this instrument, the day will come when angels stop and listen to you.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#88. We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
Henry Ward Beecher
#89. The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.
Sam Keen
#90. Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
Ramez Naam
#91. I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
Sarah Parcak
#92. We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
Brit Marling
#93. In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts.
Neil Strauss
#94. You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'
Mark McKinnon
#96. If our thoughts are going to affect what we become, then it should certainly be a priority that we think right thoughts.
Joyce Meyer
#97. When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
R.C. Sproul
#98. Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
Adyashanti
#99. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies.
C.S. Lewis
#100. It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil - we think it's a myth,
Naomi Klein
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