Thinking Quotes - Page 628

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.

With the horses, you can’t let them call the shot part of the time and then you call the shot part of the time. They’re not really designed to be your leader, but they can be a great partner, but you need to lead, and they need to respect you and respond with respect. Don’t think of respect as a dirty word. You need to respect them as well.

The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.

You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.