Thinking Quotes

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.

I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's the main thing.

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.