Thinking Quotes

I remember thinking, "My little sister is going to be something super special," because you always seemed to know what you wanted. And I'm just curious, where did that come from?

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening!

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but it seems we just take everything in stride.

People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.

I think the news people no longer have any idea of what covering the news is.

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

I think it must be hard being David [Tennant]. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.