Thinking Quotes - Page 165

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.