Thinking Quotes

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her “real” life.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a lep­rechaun.

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

We really just try not to think about the scrutiny and the pressure. We're just trying to make the show that we like, and we're working really hard at it.

When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

I know I haven't done it. I've done a couple of films, which were intended to go straight up. Thankfully they didn't. So now, I think that's what I need to do. I just need to grow as an actor.

I think New York is more stylish than London.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and what's the fear we're trying to address? I try to get into that quickly.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

I do not know when Christ is coming back. No one knows. But I do think the environment is getting more and more to the point where we can look for his return.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.