Thinking Quotes

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

We think people who make a lot of income and have a lot of net-worth are pretty well served.

Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational dichotomy with the linguistic-nonlinguistic dichotomy.

The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.

A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.

We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.