Thinking Quotes

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.