Thinking Quotes

I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

When I was a kid there was a show called 'Holmes & Yo-Yo' about a robot cop. I LOVED that show and I think it only lasted like three episodes.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.

I don't think people believe that any more, I don't think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James more than Theodore Dreiser.

There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.

Sometimes I think I have the best job in the world.

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.

I live in a peaceful world because I choose to think loving and peaceful thoughts.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.