Thinking Quotes

If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

I think the funniest stuff comes from the heaviest stuff.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

I think Mitt Romney is a symptom. I think the problem is the Republican Party.

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.

I think Democrats are complacent. They think that Russia is going to save us. Bob Mueller is going to come in with a report.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

There are people who think everything is a conspiracy and I think they're crazy.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

I think mine is a very rich life.

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.