Thinking Quotes

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

What you do, you don't think of as a product

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel more comfortable in another kind of movie.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.