Thinking Quotes

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I don't think LeBron will win 5 rings, it's gonna be hard for him to catch up to Kobe.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well.

I think all directors should be animators.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Be different - without concern for what others think.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

I am what I feel and think and do.