Thinking Quotes

The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

God is a thing that thinks.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.