Thinking Quotes

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

What one man can think, another man can do.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

Whether it's friendship or love. The essence of is two people trying to share something. When I think of how I met my best friends, it was always like love at first sight.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.

People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

God created you this way. You're you. I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

I'm still fighting to get the things I want and to do the projects I want to do. I think it will always be a fight or a challenge, but not being in my comfort zone keeps me very excited and happy.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.