Thinking Quotes

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.

Ciel: *Over Sebastian's 'dead' body* THAT'S AN ORDER! WAKE UP! RIGHT NOW! Sebastian: *thinking* But I am awake.

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.