Thinking Quotes · Page 1,053

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

— Stephen Covey

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look,

— Ali MacGraw

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to…

— Mirai Nagasu

We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I…

— Busy Philipps

I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we…

— Tammy Duckworth

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in…

— Donald Knuth

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

— Nick Simmons

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they…

— E. Nesbit

By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero) We know. (They said in unison.) Yeah, well, what you don’t…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“We sort of tell ourselves what we want to hear and the more we do that, the more we begin to agree…

— Jim Kraus

I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with…

— Ashley Greene

Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve…

— Bristol Palin

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily…

— Walter E. Williams

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables.…

— Tyler Florence

I don't think he fully analyzes the situation. If you destabilize [Bashar] Assad and punish Assad, you do embolden terrorists. You embolden…

— Rand Paul

The executive orders. Barack Obama is doing it again with this ban that he thinks is in perpetuity on offshore drilling in…

— Rush Limbaugh

My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to.…

— Elizabeth Olsen

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window.…

— Bruce Springsteen

The good thing about the dividend-paying stocks is, first of all you have stocks, which are real assets if we have some…

— Jeremy Siegel

I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of…

— April Rose

For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy… The beautiful light will continue to shine on us…

— Billy Crystal

Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to…

— Christopher Isherwood

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

— Charles Frazier

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

— Aristotle

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

— Jeff Bingaman

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

— Shimon Peres

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

— Tom Stoppard

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

— Billie Jean King

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one…

— Emma Donoghue

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

— Javier Bardem

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.

— Faraaz Kazi

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

— Abigail Van Buren

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used…

— Gloria Steinem

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me…

— Taylor Swift

I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I…

— Phil Lynott

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

— Kevin DeYoung

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

— Phyllis Schlafly