Thinking Quotes

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

I think the greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

When I'm answering questions from the Denver media, I'm not worried about what the Broncos' people are going to think. I'm worried about what Belichick will think.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.