Thinking Quotes

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.

If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

Donald Trump is on the show tonight. Donald is a big man, I think 230 pounds -- 235 with cologne.

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.