Thinking Quotes - Page 67

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been... a virgin.

At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.