Thinking Quotes

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.