Thinking Quotes

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

You're so good at helping everybody else, I think you're in danger of leaving yourself out of your own life.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

What you think is real is your reality.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

I always think everything is going to be my last job so every single day is a gift. This whole life is an accident for me.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It’s like being in a family.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.