Thinking Quotes

Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.

We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are being used by governments around the world, not just the US.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States business anyway are the ones you don't hear too much about.

Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.

I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.

As you get older, you like to think you get better because you're learning more.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.