Thinking Quotes

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

KITSIS: What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.