Thinking Quotes

I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.

I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.

My wife said to me 'I hope you win... but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.

People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.

I think my songwriting has developed over the years. As I get older, I have become less afraid to share real experiences.

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

I love a book that makes me ask questions about what I think or how I see the world or how I feel, so I hope that 'Goodbye, Stranger' is that kind of book for some people.

I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.