Thinking Quotes

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

I think the stress of having to continue to fight the fight day in and day out, whatever it is, that which keeps you driving. You can get to a place where you no longer want to do that.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used.

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.

I don't think it really matters, who plays first. Whatever they do, they do.

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

The public are always right... but I think they've got it wrong tonight

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.

I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

I suspect that my thinking is an eclectic mix, not pure net-net because I couldn’t do it anyway so you have to have a new something to hang your hat on. But the framework stays the same.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.