Thinking Quotes

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I'm a lot happier in people's living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

Some people would rather die than think.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

Enough about me. What do you think about me?

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.