Thinking Quotes

• I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Funny
  • Television
  • Laughing

• If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Brother
  • Murder
  • Racist

• I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Emotion

• Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Art
  • Kind

• You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Rest
  • Tears
  • Sailor

• Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Tree

• Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Heart
  • Kids

• My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • American
  • America
  • Culture

• I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Thinking
  • Crying

• My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Time
  • She
  • Today

• Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Self
  • Desiring

• I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mind
  • True
  • Alone

• I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

  

  Timothy Peter Lambesis As I Lay Dying
  • People
  • Band
  • Genre

• On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Elsewhere

• Thinking should become your capital asset, whatever ups and downs you may come across in your life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • May

• The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the same as hitting your employee or wife, and the issue become pretty clear when you think about it that way.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Wife

• My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors - from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato - astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Parents

• When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Thinking

• You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • High
  • Service

• I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Thinking
  • Architecture
  • Agendas

• I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Important
  • Money
  • Lost

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