Thinking Quotes

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.

I think bears and worms aren't very similar... until you think of gummy.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

So Carlito think about this: all the apple-biting.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different they have that off thing about them. Their whole presence is just a little innocent, I think.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our mind?

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

You have more potential than you think.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.