People always ask me about death and fear but that’s kind of missing the point a little bit. If I were thinking about death the whole time I was on the wall, I probably wouldn’t climb. It just wouldn’t seem that fun. – Alex Honnold
I’m not thinking about anything when I’m climbing, which is part of the appeal. I’m focused on executing what’s in front of me. – Alex Honnold
Stop thinking with your glands. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Man Trap’.
There will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 5. Syme explaining the significance of Newspeak to Winston, saying that the Party’s goal is to eliminate the need to think.
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. – Henry A. Wallace
When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country’s northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West. – Hanya Yanagihara
Our minds aren’t bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That’s also possible for a writer. – Gunter Grass
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I’m the emperor of Abyssinia. – Graham Joyce
I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead. – Hayden Christensen
Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field. – Harbhajan Singh
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time. – Hayao Miyazaki
You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it. – Greg Abbott
I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven’t gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it’s a cesspool, you don’t want to end up thinking it’s really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that’s something one has to keep an eye on all the time. – Grover Norquist
I’m not a writer because I want to make money. I’m a writer because I’m a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories. – Gregory Maguire
When I’m depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure. – Geraldine Chaplin
I don’t want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art. – Hannah Gadsby
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied. – H. R. McMaster
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. – Harold Bloom
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow. – Greil Marcus
When you’re making a pilot, what you’re mostly thinking is, ‘Please let this be a real job, please.’ – Hamish Linklater
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness. – Henri Nouwen
Without accepting the other person’s thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other’s help to get results. – Harri Holkeri
As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor. – Grover Norquist
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts. – George Carman
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. – Herbert A. Simon