Thinking Quotes

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.

At parties, everyone always thinks I'm drinking, but actually I rarely drink. I live on energy drinks, basically. I love vitamin water.

We are all great beings... I think people have lost the sense of that.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too.

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.