Thinking Quotes

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

I think everyone always has time to suffer.

I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about it and so on and so forth. I don't think that's actually true.

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

I love theatre. I think it's the home of most actors...most actors start with it. It's so enjoyable to do and to be able to see your audience. And the process of theatre is great.

I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way.

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.

Here's the biggest problem I think Donald Trump has. He's not getting enough votes today of the people who already say they don't like Hillary Clinton.

I think what it's to do is to make Donald Trump more likable.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn't have anyone following them is just out for a walk.

I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.