Thinking Quotes

I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

Hey kid...Im thinking of you! Keep the faith! Youre never alone.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want them to be honest with you.

I'm very open about my shortcomings. It's nothing for me. People think I'm so brave for being like this. But I'm just being me, I'll take it.

I don't think I have any bad features.

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.

I think that Brad Pitt is definitely a hottie. And his acting is so great that it makes him even more sexy.

I think it's a responsibility for everyone to give back.

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.

I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.

New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.

I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.