Thinking Quotes - Page 75

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Look at where I landed, you would think I planned it. I'm just doin me and you can never understand it.

A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

You are what you think about all day.