Quotes on Thinking

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.