Thinking Quotes

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

I spend a fair amount of time just thinking about whether something is feasible or not, and if it is feasible, whether it's really worth doing.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

I think acting is getting better and better.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

Talk to people about what our real choices are... Our way works better... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

When people think, Democrats win.

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.

When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.