Thinking Quotes

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even if they haven't thought about it much or worked out all the details.

I don't think the problem that we have today is overzealous believers. I think the problem we have is underzealous believers.

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple of weeks.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

I think people have made their minds up about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They love them and hate them - love them or hate them.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.

I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world? Woman: Really? Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.