Thinking Quotes

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time.

What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

I think celebrities suck.

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.