Thinking Quotes
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When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat.
W. G. Grace
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
Lou Doillon
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Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'
Phyllida Lloyd
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Mason Cooley
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
Larry Wall
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Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.
Warren Buffett
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When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.
Barack Obama
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You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
James Gandolfini
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My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
Bret Stephens
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I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
William Gibson
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This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
Byron Dorgan
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
Ian Rankin
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If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
Barack Obama
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I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
Lee Ann Womack
