Thinking Quotes

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

People always see the success but they never see what's gone on before it. Everyone thinks it happens over night.

I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.

The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.

I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they're always going to be up, and I think that's impossible for anyone.

After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.'

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, "Well, what do you think the United States should do?" My response is, "Why should the United States do anything?"

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.