Thinking Quotes

I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

I like to know who I'm going to be working with, so that I can think about them.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

I hate trying to play charming. Thinking about being charming is really tough.

I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

This is unbelievable to me. I always wanted to be famous, be the best, but I didn't think it would be like this.

There are some casual fans who think you're going to dominate a game, be magic, score 10 goals. Even if you dominate a game, you'll only score two or three goals.

If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.