Thinking Quotes

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

If you’ve got to think about it you probably shouldn’t do it

I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

I think Trent Baretta looks like Ashton Kutcher.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.