Quotes about thinking
thinking giving people
People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up. Orson Scott Card
thinking laughing people
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody. Orson Scott Card
thinking ideas people
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it. Orson Scott Card
thinking giving care
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel. Ouida
thinking compare studios
I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act. Paul Simon
thinking too-much my-own
Maybe I think too much for my own good. Paul Simon
thinking unusual-things looks
A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s. Paul Simon
thinking laughing
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh. Paul Simon
thinking two people
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next. Paul Simon
thinking brain want
I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. Paul Simon
thinking essence taught
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. Robert Morgan
thinking these-days best-poetry
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Robert Morgan
thinking beard shaving
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird. Paul McCartney
thinking mind surprise
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. Orson Scott Card
thinking animal said
You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals. Orson Scott Card
thinking people evil
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. Orson Scott Card
thinking two-sides coins
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between. Orson Scott Card
thinking people joy
I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives. Ram Dass
thinking two soul
These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego. Ram Dass
thinking mind consciousness
Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind. Ram Dass
thinking firsts realizing
At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana. Ram Dass
thinking be-here-now daring
If you think you are free, there is no escape possible. Ram Dass
thinking persons
Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are. Ram Dass
thinking ego scare
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body. Ram Dass
thinking past be-here-now
Don't think about the past. Just be here now. Ram Dass
thinking mind thinking-mind
When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe. Ram Dass
thinking interesting mind
The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions. Ram Dass
thinking mind moments
Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment. Ram Dass
thinking people suffering
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him. Randy Alcorn
thinking understanding principles
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. Stephen Jay Gould
thinking mirrors perspective
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. Stephen Jay Gould
thinking cells trying
Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world Stephen Jay Gould
thinking difficulty surround
It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them. Stephen Jay Gould