Thinking Quotes

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.

I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

I personally think fitness is a very important part of skincare and overall health and wellness and beauty. I think that the skin is our largest organ.

I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

We white people think that we know everything.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.

You must allow yourself to start thinking BIGGER and acting BOLDER with regards to what's possible for you. Seriously. Don't wait. Start now.

One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard.

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

I feel good. I think everything went good.

I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.