Thinking Quotes

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
Glen Beaman
Tao te ching, 48. lao - tzu - learning builds daily accumulation, but the...
Adlai e. stevenson jr., speech during 1952 presidential campaign - i have been thinking that i would make a...
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph Charell
Ronnie shakes - i was going to buy a copy of the power of...
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
Erich Fromm
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
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
Martin Luthe
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?
Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
George Crane
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilfred Peterson
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do.
Ronnie Shakes
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Zigla
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Edward R. Murrow
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
James Ramsey
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
Don Mazankowski
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switze
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
A. Bronson Alcott
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climbe
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Bruce Lee
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
Terry Josephson
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.
Demosthenes, Olynthiac