Thinking Quotes

I think my greatest strengths are my hands. I am also good at getting separation from the defender and finding ways to get open. I am also a good route runner.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.

What about you? You didn't even think twice about following those two. They say, 'Let's go onto the ice' and right away you say, 'Where do I put my paws?' If you ask me, you're the brave one.

You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.

I think it’s odd how it’s mirrored my life so much.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands.

I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

I think sometimes the media eggs on a lot of things and makes it worse. That's what puts a lot of things in people's heads.

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.