Thinking Quotes
I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.
Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts while he played the drums. He just wanted to play the drums and have some fun.
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.
I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.
To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.
I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.
First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they'll accept from you.
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy
Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.
I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.
We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.
It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.
I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.
When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.
Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
