Thinking Quotes

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

I think they named the orange before the carrot.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

So I’m putting my defenses up, cause I don’t wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I’d have a heart attack.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death

One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.

I think the big problem in America has is being politically correct.

We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.