Thinking Quotes

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.