Thinking Quotes

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

Most every day — if not every day — for the rest of your life, you will be reminded or think of this night. And I want to thank you in advance right now for the great memories it’s going to be.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.