Thinking Quotes

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.

I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

I think everybody wants to make a difference in some way.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Thoughts are like bullets. You should be aware when you walk into a building what energy is there, whose thoughts are there. People should realize when people think of you their thought is on you.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

I think I made good movies.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.

Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.