Thinking Quotes

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.

I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

I think I am a moral man.

I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate.

I think everything contributes to your creativity.

It's a real valley when I talk about veal. And calf roping. People were sensitive about calf roping. Which I think is quite funny.

I think everything is fair game to a certain extent.

I really think I'm at the top of my game right now, and I have the tools that I've learned over the years, so I feel really good about what I'm doing onstage now.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.

I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.