Thinking Quotes

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.

People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.

I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

I think record companies are criminals.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.

If you think, you can become successful and you are willing to learn and work at success, one day you will become successful.

I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.