Thinking Quotes

The way we feel is the direct result of what we think.

Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Film, I think, is my medium.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

I think I've been a great citizen.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.