Thinking Quotes

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

I don't think I've ever played a 'hot chick' before. I always play the quirky friend or the really angry girl.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.

It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

I can't go more than 72 hours without shopping, but I don't think I'm excessive.

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them.

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.