The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate. – Stockwell Day
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too. – Walter Kirn
People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields. – Sharad Pawar
Yes – it’s the same in any other work – the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning. – Siobhan Davies
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. – Teresa de Lauretis
I think if you give in and accept society’s stereotypes, then you start thinking, ‘I cannot dance till late at night because I’m 70.’ – Yoko Ono
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters… actors and musicians that I know. It’s sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they’re getting somebody’s real thoughts when it’s just some guy. – Zooey Deschanel
I’ve made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don’t affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don’t. It’s demonstrably true that they don’t, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking. – Warren Spector
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance. – Steven Pressfield
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution. – Simon Newcomb
Philosophy wasn’t about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: ‘How can you know what other people are thinking?’ I thought, ‘Wow, what an amazing thing.’ I really thought deeply for the first time. – Sophie Kinsella
When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it’s mind-boggling. – Steve Largent
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father’s side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. – V. S. Naipaul
I think a really rich world to live in is where you’re thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind. – Silas Weir Mitchell
When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education. – Suzy Amis
We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can’t let that hold you down… If that’s the first thing you think about as a black woman – the challenge that lies ahead – you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion. – Tamron Hall
I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. – Theo James
The tennis wasn’t really very much on my mind, so it wasn’t like I was thinking about it all the time. – Steffi Graf
It’s embarrassing that we’re in the 21st century and we don’t even know what makes gravity work. I’m getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried. – Woody Norris
The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships. – Tom Rath
My thinking musically has always been more advanced – it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. – Van Morrison
I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you’re thinking or not saying how you really feel. – Waris Dirie
I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad thing. – Takeshi Kitano
When you’re in the middle of a pennant race, you can’t go up there thinking about home runs. – Sammy Sosa
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it’s been quite effective imagining the world’s problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that’s where real major change begins. – Stone Gossard
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we’d be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test. – Will Hobbs
There’s always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I’ve attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back. – Said Sayrafiezadeh