Thinking Quotes

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.

Those who think govern those who labor.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

I think we should want all of our cities to become more compassionate places, frankly.

Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.

I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

Everybody thinks their website is above average.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

The fact that you fell out of bed makes some people think you had more than one drink before you called for help.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.