Thinking Quotes - Page 384

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people. You can't involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything else. They couldn't care less about those things. But you give them something to worry about, some person they can worry about, and care about, and you've got them, you've got them involved.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.