Quotes about thinking
thinking easy hard
To act is easy; to think is hard. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
thinking self people
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
thinking doe imagine
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
thinking use language
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
thinking philosopher language
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
thinking youth mankind
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
thinking illustration differences
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.
thinking essence superstitions
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
thinking mind stories
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.
thinking sick literature
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
thinking intelligent intelligence
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
thinking trying know-yourself
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
thinking light prudent
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
thinking slave
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
thinking soul religion
He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end. Joel Barlow
thinking decision action
Never over think! Make a decision and take action!
thinking president want
I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. Joe Walsh
thinking years yesterday
I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years. Joe Wright
thinking organization yankees
Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented. Joe Torre
thinking people sensitivity
I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
thinking honest reputation
That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
thinking league stuff
You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
thinking pursuit
The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.
thinking blue actors
I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession. Joe Mantegna
thinking america
I think it's time to rebuild America. Joe Manchin
thinking athletic intellectual
I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time. Joe Manganiello
thinking games people
I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents. Joe Lieberman
thinking winning important
I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.
thinking hard-times careers
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career. Joanne Woodward
thinking zeta dresses
I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones. Joanne Froggatt
thinking entertainment noble
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble. Joaquin Phoenix
thinking doe quitting
Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
thinking directors actors
I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.