Thinking Quotes

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

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.