Thinking Quotes
Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy.
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.
It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.
Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.
A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.
Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink.
It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.
A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
Albertans were looking for change. And so I think that we're staying true to our principles by working to deliver on that change. And I think that is what people were looking for
I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.
When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.
When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.
I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.
Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.
I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.
In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
