Thinking Clearly Quotes

A good thing for footballers is not to think too much, especially when you've got to move to a big team like Liverpool, because that's when you start to confuse your mind.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

Hush, self, let me think.

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.

Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I think, you think critically all day, you've got a lot of decisions to make, so you've got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.