Thinking Quotes

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.

I did not and do not think of the solidity-liquidity conundrum as a dichotomy; I view those two conditions as a couple locked, inseparably, in a dialectical bond.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life

Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.

I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

Never trust a second thought. Where there is two there is three. You will end up thinking forever.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

We’ve been in all the big games, we’ve been in small games, and we’ve treated them all the same and I think that mentality is what’s helped us get to the point where we are now.

I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.