Thinking Quotes

I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself.

I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel uncomfortable in doing so.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.

I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.

It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

You should never think without an image.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.