Thinking Quotes

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get. Set your sights higher.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.