Thinking Quotes · Page 581

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

— Murray Bookchin

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try…

— Anonymous

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

— Talulah Riley

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

— Phil Libin

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

— Alice Sebold

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

— Sydney Pollack

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time,…

— Theo Epstein

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd…

— Joe Strummer

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in…

— Bill Watterson

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous…

— John Bolton

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make…

— Jonah Hill

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the…

— Whitney Cummings

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most…

— Jon Foreman

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies…

— Peter Greenaway

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold…

— Swami Vivekananda

was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she…

— Stephen Chbosky

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which…

— John Graves

I think its just important to do something. Some sort of exercise. I get asked this a lot. It's important to do…

— Nick Youngquest

Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep…

— Peter Travers

I think that internet technologies are making everything so transparent. The arms race of deception and spin against the public trying to…

— Julian Baggini

India is developing a lot of soft power, and it's not just about us providing outsourcing and call centers to the world.…

— Cyril Shroff

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

— Shaun White

I think it's really important to have portion control. I don't believe in losing weight quickly.

— Billie Jean King

People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.

— John Spence

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles…

— Epictetus

Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make.

— Mehgan Heaney-Grier

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

— Madeline Carroll

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever…

— David Walliams

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

— Edward Weston

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

— Gillian Flynn

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

— Anais Nin

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

— George Eliot

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good…

— Colin Quinn

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

— Kevin Pietersen

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.

— Robert Downey, Jr