Thinking Quotes

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

I travel light in general and I don't think I have ever had to check a bag.

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.