Thinking Quotes

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.

The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

I think, therefore I am confused.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.