Thinking Quotes

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition.

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands.

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

Always take much less than you think you'll need.

I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

R2-D2 is like that, but I think because he doesn't speak actual words, his jokes don't land. It's really a hindrance. And the same with BB-8. But Artoo is a lot stronger.

I haven't been to too many cons since Star Wars, and I don't think it's really going to change until it comes out.

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won’t feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.