Thinking Quotes

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

I think that as the market moves and costs get higher and fares get higher, it always creates opportunity. That's been the cycle over the years.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

Think with your heart, speak with your soul.

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.