Quotes on Thinking

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment