Thinking Quotes

He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth.

There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution.

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.