Thinking Quotes

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of COMPASSION for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.

If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

The thing about fame, is you never think it's going to happen to you. So when it does, it's sort of a shock. Some people are just better at it than others.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.