Thinking Quotes

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently.

I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going with websites and online and that sort of thing.'

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.

Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.

Humans can think inhuman thoughts.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.