Thinking Quotes

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things.

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.

What you do is miniscule in comparison with what you choose to think, because your vibration is so much more powerful and so much more important.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.

Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

I don't think 'Survivor' really changed me.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

Probably the greatest thing working in games is watching someone enjoy your game and to think, "Wow I had a part in giving someone that enjoyment".

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.