Thinking Quotes

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

If you have clutter, you're richer than you think!

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I feel like I kind of got my own lane, but I think if you mix T.I., Andre3000, Hov and Kanye you kinda get who I am. And I'm a huge fan of all of those artists, I grew up on a little bit of all them.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

Player safety is definitely something that has to be at the top of the list. I think that the union and the NFL are doing all they can to make sure they're protecting the players the best they can.

I think every year you're in the NFL you probably lose three or five years off your lifespan.

I think it is easy to be a doctor. There are a hell of a lot more doctors than there are guys riding big Pipeline.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?

As much research as you think you're doing, you're going to mess up, without a question.

It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

Clear thought makes clear speech.