Thinking Quotes

I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.

After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’

I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

Intuition is what you know before you think.

You become what you think about the most.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I don't enjoy sitting with make-up all the time and that is why I have decided to go for the natural look. Not only me, I think given a choice, everybody would prefer such a look on screen.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.