Thinking Quotes

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.

Sometimes when you win, you think you're going to get everything to go your way.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.