Am I Thinking Quotes

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

And really, I think I like who I'm becoming.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

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

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

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

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

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

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.