Thinking Quotes · Page 1,215

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

— Robin Sharma

That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

— Glen Duncan

I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

— GZA

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

— Shannon Miller

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

— Mark Spitz

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the…

— Robert M. Gates

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic…

— Lily Allen

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they…

— Mindy Kaling

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better…

— Romola Garai

When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to…

— Shelby Harris

My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a…

— Samuel Beckett

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the…

— Norman Mailer

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him…

— Margaret Mitchell

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from…

— Edwin Land

It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never wanted to write about Bulgaria. When I was still living there I did my absolute best to never write a…

— Miroslav Penkov

Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it…

— Rajneesh

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're…

— Jill Scott

It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to…

— Marco Rubio

No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you…

— Esther Hicks

If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human…

— John of Kronstadt

I think conditions on the ground determine what you need in a particular area.

— Paul Ryan

“Why would I kill to know what she's thinking right now? Probably because I enjoy killing.”

— Kresley Cole

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because…

— Ani DiFranco

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country…

— Simon Pegg

God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

— Oswald Chambers

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to…

— Avril Lavigne

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction…

— Jim Henson

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

— Aphex Twin

“Your thoughts carry you wherever you want to go. Weak thoughts don’t have the energy to carry you far!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

— Ann Beattie

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

— James Galway

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.

— Kevin Hart

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you…

— Marie Lu

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

— Kate Zambreno

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented…

— Mary Pope Osborne