Thinking Quotes

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person.

Alice Cullen had more vampire interaction, for sure, than human interaction. I think she was kind of amped to finally get to play a vampire, so she was good to go.

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they - he felt like they loved him.

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

I think. I am. I will.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"

When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.

I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.