Thinking Quotes

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

t I think what [James Mattis] will do with the deal is monitor it very, very carefully and make sure that Iran is complying with every stipulation of it.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

We are not thinking machines.

Music stops you from thinking.

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.