Thinking Quotes

What we think about and talk about expands into action.

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

I think the way we show love for God is by loving each other, by extending the love that we are.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

I don't think we die. I think our bodies leave, but we can never die. That which is never born, can never die. And that which never changes, can never die.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

News photography teaches you to think fast.

Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.

Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

Donald Trump thinks all press is good press. And I think he believes that he's putting everybody on a psychological disadvantage.

I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.

I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.