Thinking Quotes

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

The hardest thing about movies is doing take 12, 13, and 14, and finding new ways to do the same lines. So the early takes are actually easier and I think there's more surprises in them.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral.

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!

I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

I think I'm a little concussed.

Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.