Thinking Quotes

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.

The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.

I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.

I do think there will be more Japanese companies expanding out of Japan, and there will be more cross-border flow from Japan.

Usually, something that is fairly expected is already factored in. I also think that you have to think that America is raising rates because the economy is getting stronger.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

It's moderate growth, with some parts of the world better than people think, and better than last year [2015].

I think normalization is a good thing.