Thinking Quotes

• The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trouble

• Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Heart
  • Angry

• I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Car

• I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.

  

  Kalan Sherrard
  • Job
  • Identity
  • Anarchist

• I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

  

  David Zucker
  • Up
  • Serious
  • Inspired

• I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Respect
  • Kind
  • Woman

• Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.

  

  Marco Mendoza Black Star Riders
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Expectations

• Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Thinking
  • Band
  • Might

• What I want to do is try to raise the level of SCI-Arc's original mission, which was to be forward-thinking. And let's face it, if you're forward-thinking and you're dealing in concepts of new ideas, history has told us that new ideas are not always wanted by everyone.

  

  Neil Denari
  • Thinking
  • History

• I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Perfect
  • Band
  • Legacy

• I think that the feel that maybe China is slowing down means it will be buying less from Africa and Latin America. That means Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola will sell less in Latin America and Africa. And so it is definitely related.

  

  David Wessel
  • America
  • Latin
  • Definitely

• I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as dark as I am - I want to be a little fairer.' I didn't want to be me.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • School
  • Remember
  • Black

• The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • History
  • Facts
  • Historical

• I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Women
  • Done

• I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • School
  • Support

• I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Brain
  • Internet
  • Consciousness

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