Thinking Quotes

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

... think a thought you can accept. "My success is coming to me now," or "all things lead to my success."

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

I think the world should be one community.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

Think I'll roll another number for the road

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.