Thinking Quotes

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.

I think if you serve under John Kelly your morale is going to be good.

It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.

It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.

Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot?

The specifics of the platform, I don't think, are necessarily going to be written by Bernie Sanders, but the themes of the platform are going to be written by Bernie Sanders.

I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

I think communication is so firsbern.

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.

I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

I think when the movie 'Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

Or is it that I think too much?

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.

My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.

I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.