Thinking Quotes

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo and I was having problems coping with that image.

I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and what I look like.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

Pretty good, you know its nice when you get people coming up to you saying Can I have a photo or an autograph; its a compliment, I think.

Im probably one of the worst people with numbers youve ever met. My brothers always kid that they think Im counting cards in Vegas, but Im just trying to add things up.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.