Thinking Quotes

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Act quickly, think slowly.

I think just having smooth skin is so great because when you get your summer tan, you don't have to do anything. It's just soft and smooth.

There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's fine. If it's about me, I think it's totally insensitive!

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

When you think of H&M, you're thinking of something that's accessible to a broad range of people, perhaps far broader than most of these beautiful shows.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom