Thinking Quotes

Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

Thinking is my fighting.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

If you think you understand, it isn't God.

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.