Thinking Quotes

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

To have a week off in the middle of the season feels like a lot longer I think, so I feel really good. Hopefully I can go out there and get some runs.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

I want people to think they can't die until they see me play.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Think of your problems as a gift – get out there and fix them.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.