Thinking Quotes

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films, I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I don't think good films have messages.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

I think of how most people only get three weeks of vacation a year. And that, for me, seems like it would be really hard. My life feels like a vacation.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.

That was very rude of me.” “Think nothing of it. You’ve done worse.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

It was nice that there [ in the Bourne Ultimatum ] was a reference to the relationship . It's very subtle - it's actually without dialogue. I do think it's powerful even without words.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

I think it's really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don't think it's annoying at all.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.