Thinking Quotes

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.

I do think women change the discourse in Senate and I think it is more civil when women are involved.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.

I don't think there's a lot of discipline right now.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.