Thinking Quotes

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

There's just been a couple of moments where - we did the one [ Carpool Karaoke] with Justin Bieber, which kind of went crazy and I think is at, like 65 million views on YouTube .

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.