Thinking Quotes

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.

I'm not going to give the same energy. I am going to give more of myself. If everyone thinks like that, it's going to be something incredible.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason.

I've never made any choice or done anything that wasn't what I think it should be. I've never compromised, but I do listen.

You think that when you love somebody you have to totally follow him or her. No, that's not love. When you love somebody, you have to be totally truthful with that person.

There are a lot of times where people think I'm in things that I'm not in, because they think I'm Kumail Nanjiani.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we have the rare ability to read others. This fascinates me at the moment.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?