Thinking Quotes

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt
- Thinking
- Activity
- Holds
As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.

Amy Klobuchar
- World
- Thinking
- America

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

Marcia Gay Harden
- Life
- Up
- Space
We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

Sofia Coppola
- People
- Dad
- Creative
Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

Astro Teller
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

Anne Waldman
- Work
- Women
- Poetry
You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.' I think you have to love what you're doing to do it well.

Lynn Coady
- Thinking
- True
- Support
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

E. J. Hughes