Thinking Quotes

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

I think I ended up on 'People”s '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Too many churches think being like Jesus means you stay the same yesterday today and forever.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.