Thinking Quotes

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.

I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it.

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great!

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak.

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.