Thinking Quotes
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.
I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.
People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.
Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.
There are tons of ways women can get into the sport easly. I think it is not as intimidating as many people think it is.
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.
The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.
I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.
And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.
I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.
You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.
I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.
Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.
I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.
We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.
I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.
I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.
There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.
I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.
So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.
Dreaming is great, but thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or make you into the person you know in your heart you can be.
To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful
Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.
The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.