Thinking Quotes

I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

I am not a person who is particularly patient with anyone so I am certainly not going to be patient with myself I think.

I don't think we need to deal with just one thing. Look at where we are now compared to where we were when he [Barack Obama] walked into office. It's not a happy path.

I think there are enough professional actors to fill in for me in my absence. I enjoyed it, but I can't imagine a role that would be interesting beyond playing myself.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.

I love women, I think they're great.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.

I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.