Thoughts

[football]

'Think forever.' What do these two words in the phrase mean?

[sft42]

Think - to contemplate, cogitate, examine mentally, mull over.

Forever - From this point forward till the end of time

Despite a search i can't find any significant reference to these two words together in a saying.

[Cathy]

There are two ways you could take this. Either the act of thinking for the rest of eternity or think about something lasting forever.

[Quizmonster]

It could be used in the sense of 'think in terms of eternity'. For example, Person A might say: "My wife has gone", to which Person B might reply: "For how long?" Person A might then come back with: "Think forever", suggesting that B should think in terms of 'for all time' rather than 'for a couple of weeks', say.

In the same way someone might say to an underconfident team-mate: "Think victory" or to a budding businessman: "Think profit."

In all three cases, the key-word would be in real or theoretical quotation marks. I didn't use these earlier, as there were too many of the wretched things around already! So, here goes: Think 'forever'.

[woodpam]

I would take it to mean "no matter how long you live, keep on thinking, questioning, considering all points of view". In other words don't let your mind get stuck with a set of attitudes and theories which may have been reasonable at some time in the past but are not appropriate as time moves on.