Thinking Quotes

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

What you're thinking about is what you are being.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

Being a goaltender is not a job that would interest any normal, straight-thinking human.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.