„You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.“

„You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.“

—  Laura Esquivel, книга Like Water for Chocolate

Источник: Like Water for Chocolate

„I don't consider psychedelics hard drugs, [but] I also don't recommend that people take [them]. I think it's something that you either did in the sixties, or you just forget about it.“

—  Michelle Phillips Singer, actress 1944

On drug use, Regis Philbin's Lifestyles (1986)

„Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.“

—  Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

Источник: Love That Dog

„At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.“

—  Nâzım Hikmet Turkish poet 1902 - 1963

From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII

„You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!“

—  Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

„Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.“

—  Fay Weldon English author, essayist and playwright 1931

„I think there's blame on both sides, you look at, you look at both sides, I think there's blame on both side, and I have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

2010s, 2017, August

„Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.“

—  Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976

Swimming advice to physician Zhisui Li (1966), quoted in The TIME 100 (13 April 1998) http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mao.html

„I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.“

—  Orson Scott Card, книга Xenocide

Источник: Xenocide

„All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Источник: The Great Gatsby

„It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.“

—  Alex Flinn American children's writer 1966

Источник: Breathing Underwater

„If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.“

—  Richard Brautigan, книга In Watermelon Sugar

Источник: In Watermelon Sugar

„You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.“

—  Sue Monk Kidd, книга The Secret Life of Bees

Источник: The Secret Life of Bees

„We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about.“

—  Anthony Stewart Head English actor 1954

Giles Ahead Time Out - London's Living Guide January 9-16 2002 http://www.gilesfanfic.de/default.php?url=artikel_11_oton

„What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.“

—  Maya Angelou, книга Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Источник: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

„This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan:
You can do what you want
If you don't think you can't,
So don't think you can't – think you can.“

—  Charles Inge

"On Monsieur Coué", Epigram in The Week-end Book (1928), p. 217.

„You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?
I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.“

—  Charles Portis, книга True Grit

Источник: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 151 : exchange between 'LaBoeuf' and 'Rooster Cogburn'

„Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't… I don't think it's something anybody knows.“

—  L.J. Smith American author 1965

„I never thought about going up…I don't know, don't you think that must mean something?“

—  Edie Sedgwick Socialite, actress, model 1943 - 1971

Describing a dream to Chuck Wein
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Контексте: It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue, like... Yes, and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up... I don't know, don't you think that must mean something? It never occurred to me to turn it around, I mean, why didn't I think that way? This was after I had the car accident.