Thinking Quotes

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person.

Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, liked and wore the same thing?

In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

Calm down, Think different, Find your way.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.