Thinking Quotes

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already.

I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

You will never let yourself have more money than you think you deserve.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

It's not the ink, it's the think.

Rationality will not save us.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.

Alot of peo­ple think our lives are all about tak­ing pic­tures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're tak­ing pic­tures of you all the time.

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

I think I was born in Elizabethan times.

I think the main change is the fact there are so many women involved on the set now.

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

I like movies that make you think.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

I'm a huge fan of Warner Brothers cartoons. I would spend many hours alone after school watching Daffy Duck. I think Daffy Duck is one of the great comedic villains.