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I took my baby on a Saturday bang, Boy, is that girl with you? Yes, were one and the same. Well, I believe in miracles, And a miracle has happened tonight, But if youre thinking about my baby, It dont matter if youre black or white.

— Michael Jackson thinking

America is a country founded on guns. Its in our DNA. Its very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I dont feel safe, I dont feel the house is completely safe, if I dont have one hidden somewhere. Thats my thinking, right or wrong.

— Brad Pitt thinking

The drum major instinct can lead to exclusivism in one's thinking and can lead one to feel that because he has some training, he's a little better than that person who doesn't have it. Or because he has some economic security, that he's a little better than that person who doesn't have it. And that's the uncontrolled, perverted use of the drum major instinct.

— Martin Luther King, Jr. thinking

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

— Saddam Hussein thinking

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

— Mark Twain thinking

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

— Pierre Trudeau thinking

The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.

— Albert Camus thinking

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

— Robert Benchley thinking

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

— Technology thinking

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..

— Arthur C. Clarke thinking

Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.

— Linus Torvalds thinking

I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God. You shouldn't say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.

— Terry Pratchett thinking

sets the, fostersand unorthodox thinking and ideas...

— Boris Yeltsin thinking

I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited; I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

— Walt Whitman thinking

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

— Thomas Paine thinking

Till we came to be There was not a trace Of a thinking race Anywhere in space.

— Robert Frost thinking

There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort— things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them— are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.

— E. E. Cummings thinking

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein thinking

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

— Lord Byron thinking

Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.

— Thomas Carlyle thinking

The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

— Jonathan Swift thinking

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

— Jane Austen thinking

But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.

— E. M. Forster thinking

Pinky: You know Brain I've been thinking I don't want to be an elf anymore. Brain: What do you want to be Pinky? Pinky: !

— Pinky and the Brain thinking

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

— Joseph Brodsky thinking

The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.

— Larry Wall thinking

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.

— Blaise Pascal thinking

Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting

— Fernando Pessoa thinking

Whether or not there exists a solution to problems troubles only a minority; that the emotions have no outcome, lead to nothing, vanish into themselves - that is the great unconscious drama, the affective insolubility everyone suffers without even thinking about it.

— Emil Cioran thinking

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

— Samuel Butler (novelist) thinking

Well he had a point. Of course, he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's . But, thinking that they might be... well…

— They Might Be Giants thinking

"An Ixian machine? You defy the Jihad!" "There's a lesson in that, too. What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger."

— Dune thinking

Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

— Donald Rumsfeld thinking

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

— Will Cuppy thinking

Weare clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it.

— Richard Feynman thinking

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

— Tupac Shakur thinking

“Mountains, Bruce, mountains,” the manager said. “Mountains, Bruce, mountains,” Bruce said and gazed. “Echolalia, Bruce, echolalia,” the manager said. “Echolalia, Bruce—” “Okay, Bruce,” the manager said, and shut the cabin door behind him, thinking, I believe I’ll put him among the carrots. Or beets. Something simple. Something that won’t puzzle him.

— Philip K. Dick thinking

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

— Logic thinking

What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.

— Eric Hoffer thinking

Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!

— Aleister Crowley thinking

They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way.

— The Catcher in the Rye thinking

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.

— Julia Cameron thinking

What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?

— Colin Powell thinking

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.

— William James thinking

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

— William Hazlitt thinking

are just as vulnerable to wishful thinking, just as likely to be tempted by base motives, just as venal and gullible and forgetful as the rest of humankind. Scientists don't consider themselves to be saints; they don't even pretend to be priests (who according to tradition are supposed to do a better job than the rest of us at fighting off human temptation and frailty). Scientists take themselves to be just as weak and fallible as anybody else, but recognizing those very sources of error in themselves and in the groups to which they belong, they have devised elaborate systems to tie their own hands, forcibly preventing their frailties and prejudices from infecting their results.

— Daniel Dennett thinking

I do feel thatis being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

— Kurt Vonnegut thinking

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov thinking

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

— Marcus Aurelius thinking

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

— Jack Abramoff thinking

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

— Floyd Abrams thinking

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

— Freddy Adu thinking

The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.

— Emma Anderson thinking

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!

— Paul Thomas Anderson thinking

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

— Tadao Ando thinking

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

— Carmelo Anthony thinking

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

— David Antin thinking

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

— Benigno Aquino III thinking

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

— Paul Arden thinking

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

— Rudolf Arnheim thinking

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

— Matthew Arnold thinking

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

— Gerard Arpey thinking

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

— Richard Attias thinking

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

— Max Azria thinking

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

— Burt Bacharach thinking

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

— John Backus thinking

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

— John Badham thinking

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

— Arthur Baker thinking

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

— James Mark Baldwin thinking

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

— Iain Banks thinking

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

— William Barclay thinking

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

— Aneurin Barnard thinking

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.

— Bonnie Bassler thinking

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

— Justine Bateman thinking

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

— Stephanie Beacham thinking

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

— Camilla Belle thinking

I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.

— Maria Bello thinking

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman thinking

I've had some styles that make me wonder what the hell I was thinking. How did I let someone do that to me?

— Leslie Bibb thinking

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

— Craig Bierko thinking

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

— Max Bill thinking

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

— Cate Blanchett thinking

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

— Alexis Bledel thinking

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

— Arthur Bloch thinking

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

— James Blunt thinking

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

— David Bohm thinking

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

— Niels Bohr thinking

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

— Derek Bok thinking

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

— Omar Bongo thinking

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

— Edward de Bono thinking

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

— David Bowie thinking

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

— Billy Boyd thinking

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

— Andrew Coyle Bradley thinking

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

— Richard Brautigan thinking

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

— Eli Broad thinking

Let your performance do the thinking.

— Charlotte Bronte thinking

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

— Terry Brooks thinking

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

— Clancy Brown thinking

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