Thinking Quotes

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Think of loyalty as a kind of relational glue.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

I have people printing that I have. Never been engaged. As far as what I think of marriage, I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day, but I'll start with love.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.

I think one of the coolest things for my daughters is that they'll get to see their mom being a working mom. It's one of the things I'll be most proud of.

Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].

After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.

I think we owe absolutely everything to the fans.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.