Thinking Quotes

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

I think people want love in their lives.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

I think making an album is a difficult thing.

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.

Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, "Oh, maybe I don't like them that much!" I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable.

Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.