Thinking Quotes

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

Every time something pops in my head, I think twice about it and I do it anyway.

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.

I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.

It’s just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.

It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

Think positive, and don't listen to anyone telling you 'you can't.' You can. Trust me.

When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

What attracts usually comes from a place you'd never think.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.