Thinking Quotes

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.

I think a handwritten letter - a lot of guys don't realize what that means. It's those little romantic touches that tell a lady, "I like a lot of people, but you have a special place in my heart."

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well.

I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.

I think that, at the end of the day, those voters [Barack Obama voters] are going to join ranks, and it is going to help propel Hillary Clinton to victory.

I actually think that her [Hillary Clinton] numbers are artificially low.

I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

I do not get involved in the game to think that it is a future transition for me getting back into the ring. It was not my intention. I've stated many times that I did it for my son.

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?