Thinking Quotes

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

I think the simpler the better.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

If you think about shortages, you're going to attract more shortage! If you think about what's missing, you're going to attract more of what's missing in your life.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.