Thinking Quotes

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.

I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.