Thinking Quotes

I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in nobody's interest to see a trade war.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.

I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

I just think things should work properly.