Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy and it's serious. It's serious business.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business education pro football anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

Mental fight means thinking against the current not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party and I'm thinking 'Hey I've still got it.'

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do and the most beautiful things it can enjoy without thinking that every day may be the last one and that lost time is lost eternity!

Thinking well to be wise: planning well wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case it is usually at the expense of others. In other words it is the opposite of idealism.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Beauty can't amuse you but brainwork - reading writing thinking - can.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.