Quotes about thinking
thinking years understanding
Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he is wrong - and I think I can show, by analyzing his slipshod scholarship and basic misunderstanding of science, that his world is an invention constructed to validate his own private hopes ... Rifkin shows no understanding of the norms and procedures of science: he displays little comprehension of what science is and how scientists work. Stephen Jay Gould
thinking views color
Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.
thinking praying study
I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family. Billy Graham
thinking differences together
I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.
thinking play choices
The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.
thinking abortion sacred
I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.
thinking president administration
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
thinking issues political
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
thinking issues social
I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.
thinking angry
I don't think I get angry.
thinking race giving
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them and I do.
thinking arrogance want
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!
thinking feelings brain
If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy Candace Bushnell
thinking sin teach
The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.
thinking three christ
There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.
thinking loving-you heartless
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. William Wilberforce
thinking your-side people
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said. F. Lee Bailey
thinking average guy
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
thinking dishonesty boomerang
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
thinking air doors
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily. Kate Morton
thinking ideas issues
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy. Kurt Vonnegut
thinking doubt tribes
Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.
thinking humanity humans
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
thinking people trouble
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
thinking sight two
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.
thinking roman-numerals numbers
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
thinking hocus-pocus heard
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
thinking usual storytelling
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.
thinking important persons
I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.
thinking frustration would-be
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
thinking names parent
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.
thinking justice people
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
thinking animal trying
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.