Thinking Quotes

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is.

All clients think that they are architects.

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

Life is not always what we think it is.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.