Thinking Quotes

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

They think too little who talk too much.

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

I think the world is safer without Iran with a nuclear weapon. The world has got the potential to be safer if we fully implement the Paris agreement.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.

I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

People will think what they want to," he said quietly. Never take too much notice of it.

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

Hunting party," Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. "You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.

It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

I think that it's good for us to be able to travel in space and do research in space, and I emphasize the research, because space travel to me is far more than just seeing how far we can go.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.