"think"タグの名言

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter. I really came into being The day I no longer cared about What the world thought of me, Only on my thoughts for Changing the world.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Think, think, think.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.