Quotes and Sayings About Thinking
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Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.
-- Abby Wambach -
I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
-- Abdallah II -
Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
-- Abdallah II -
I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
-- Abdallah II -
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
-- Abdallah II -
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
-- Abdallah II -
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
-- Abdallah II -
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
-- Abdallah II -
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
-- Abdallah II -
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
-- Abdallah II -
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution
-- Abdul Kalam -
Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
-- Abdul Kalam -
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
-- Abel Ferrara -
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
-- Abel Ferrara -
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
-- Abigail Breslin -
I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
-- Abigail Breslin -
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
-- Abigail Breslin -
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
-- Abraham Flexner -
As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.
-- Abraham Foxman -
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
