Thinking Quotes

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

Industrial food makers don't want you thinking about where your food comes from and what's in it.

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

If you think you know it all, you really know nothing.

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.

Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. It's like me. I've been around long enough and I've come back in fashion.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

With girls, I don't think right. I had a date with one girl, she had mirrors all over her bedroom. She told me to come over and bring a bottle. I got Windex.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.