Thinking Quotes

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born.