Thinking Quotes

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

Think about it: What's the worst thing that can happen to you if you just totally go for it?

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name.

He thinks I look alike!

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet. Try new things, go on adventures, and appreciate every little thing because it may not be as little as you might think.

I think aerials is designed for China and I'm happy to be the one to make this a reality.

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.