Thinking Quotes

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything about hippydom I hated.

Going on things like rollercoasters is not really up my street I guess. I don't feel like I need to do stunts. I'm too scared and I don't think it's my job.

I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that's really what's been happening.

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.

I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

I think being vulnerable paves the way for humility.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

I think after you live it's like before you lived.

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

I rather think he knew anyway.

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and going to convince you on that basis.

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.