Thinking Quotes

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.