Thinking Quotes

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I think that's my favorite show.

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

Stanton emerged from the shadows. "So your brother thinks you need a boyfriend?"he teased. "Stop.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?

Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

Do not think that you are too busy to study the gospel.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.