Thinking Quotes

• What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Feeling

• I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

  

  Lillete Dubey
  • Thinking

• Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

  

  Carol Berg
  • Thinking
  • Words

• My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Real
  • Done
  • Walking

• Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • What You Want

• Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • People
  • Thinking

• I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Film

• I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Wish

• I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Different
  • Learning
  • Process

• Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Fighting
  • Cutting
  • Blow

• I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Career
  • Destiny
  • Fabulous

• I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

  

  John Travolta
  • Art
  • Sports
  • Flying

• A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Thinking
  • Tired

• In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''

  

  Alex Kingston
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Women
  • Light
  • Stress

• I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Daughter

• I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Person
  • Stretch

• As they are the bravest who require no witnesses to their deeds of daring, so they are the best who do right without thinking whether or not it shall be known.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Thinking

• What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

  

  Rex Hunt
  • Teaching
  • Fantastic
  • Critical

• At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

  

  Guy Berryman Coldplay
  • School
  • Decision
  • Wonder

• I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

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