Thinking Quotes

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

I think I've seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.

If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

I don't care what you think of Michael Vick - whether you think he's being mistreated or misused, or just think he's not that good, whatever. He can play for my team any day

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

Only the mad girls chase me, I think.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.