Thinking Quotes

Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

We think that we are invincible because we are.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

I think it's better to just say nothing at all than to just send two words.

The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.

I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think

I'm a footballer, I don't think past next Saturday.