Thinking Quotes

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!

If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.