Thinking Quotes

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

On any given day, I don't think there's anybody who can outdrive me. That's the mind set I have going into every race.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.

I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'

I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

Whenever something good happens to me, I try-it may sound kind of bad-to think a little negative. I just always try to keep myself grounded.

I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

Everyone still wants to see [Floyd] Mayweather and [Manny] Pacquaio fight. When the talks start though, it always seem like it is all about Mayweather, and I think the people hate that.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.

I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

I think like a detective.