Thinking Quotes
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I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
Richard Grossman
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Ernest Hemingway
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
Tim Ferriss
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As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
Marco Scutaro
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The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
Robin LaFevers
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I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
Astro Teller
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I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.
John Lurie
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Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.
David Grinspoon
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I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
George Osborne
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Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
Jason Calacanis
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I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
J. J. Abrams
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
Erykah Badu
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A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.
Seamus Dever
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When people think about the ark, they're always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with a bow and a deck, where Noah and the giraffes could walk around. In the actual written text it is basically described as a long, rectangular box.
Darren Aronofsky