Thinking Quotes

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something.

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'”

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.