Thinking Quotes
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.
I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.
When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.
People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.
Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.
I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.
I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.
Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.
Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.
I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.
The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.
I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.
You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.
I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.
I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.
What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.
No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.