Thinking Quotes

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.

We were just hanging out and getting to learn about each other. But I think trust was a really big thing. Patti [Smith] is a good friend, somebody I can talk to.

I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.

I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn, it's a vehicle for it.

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

I can't stop thinking like this.

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

If you think I'm afraid of the steel cage...YOU'RE RIGHT! Please God, don't make me go into the cage!

I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.