Thinking Quotes

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

And I laughed so hard I think I died

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

I think Donald Trump is at his best when he sticks to the issues.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.