Thinking Quotes

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.

Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.

Your Day Is Your Life

Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

I don't care what other people think.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

I just think that I’m a person who’s trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.