Thinking Quotes

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

I kill a sofa for you and you go and sit in a chair?” Skulduggery asked. “I don’t think you appreciate the sacrifice that has been made for you.

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.

I would say sleep can always be emphasized - I didn't do it enough in my 20s, because you don't think you need it.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I'm not perfect, but I think that I've done good to stay focused on what I'm called to do.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.