Thinking Quotes - Page 210

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6.4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received a rebate from the IRS of $260 million. That same year J.P. Morgan had $17.2 billion in profits in the U.S. They also paid no federal income tax. Do you think it's time for tax reform?

If you think you have no power over what happens in the outside world, this is a belief and an agreement you have made between yourself and the field of existence. Your cells hear this command about your place in reality and do everything possible to make certain, in whatever situation you meet, that you have no power over events. Your beliefs establish the instructions for how you want to operate your biological being, and in these times of tremendous acceleration, humankind is faced with the responsibility of learning how to manage the energy of thought

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Child molesters must all think they've got huge dicks.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that there are an even number of stars; but also, no one thinks the right conclusion to draw is that there are an uneven number of stars. The right conclusion would instead be agnosticism.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.