Thinking Quotes

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

One works without thinking how to work.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.