Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher thinking how it wouldn't work.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece anywhere is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking individuality is not highly prized.

A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey but also the life values - are sinking in.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms molecules cells tissues and organs.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Mainly I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Women often postpone their lives thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that because it's too embarrassing and too sad I think it really does exist.

Sad people dislike the happy and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate and the careless the busy and industrious.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Well we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.