Thinking Quotes

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

I worry about leaders in complex situations who don't have enough experience, who are just going with their intuition and not monitoring it, not thinking about it.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically

I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

I never expect a soldier to think.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.