Thinking Quotes

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.

One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.

I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some kind of moment where you, like, feel a different energy around someone.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

I sure don't think of myself as a fat person, just someone who carries extra weight. I've never seen anyone on the DL with pulled fat.

I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.