Thinking Quotes

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.

You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

I dreamed of being able to share my thoughts and feelings and hopes without thinking they were going to make fun of me and think I was silly, and I have that.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

I can't think of anything more horrible than sharing what I'm doing all day!

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.