Thinking Quotes

• I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Angry
  • Stills
  • Mellow

• Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Trust

• When I'm designing, I'm thinking about what it would be like to wear that piece.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Thinking

• They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

  

  John Hume
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Irish

• 'Mountains, Bruce, mountains,' the manager said.'Mountains, Bruce, mountains,' Bruce said and gazed.'Echolalia, Bruce, echolalia,' the manager said. 'Echolalia, Bruce-''Okay, Bruce,' the manager said, and shut the cabin door behind him, thinking, I believe I’ll put him among the carrots. Or beets. Something simple. Something that won’t puzzle him.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Believe
  • Simple
  • Door

• If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Trying
  • Answers
  • Possibility

• Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.

  

  K Callan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Over You

• I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Time
  • Good
  • Serious

• I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Focus

• One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Pet

• We are all a little weird. And we like to think that there is always someone weirder. I mean, I am sure some of you are looking at me and thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as you,” and I am thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as the people in the loony bin,” and the people in the loony bin are thinking, “Well, at least I am an orange”.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Depression
  • Feet

• Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Creativity
  • Intense
  • Filmmaker

• The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Thinking
  • Age

• Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

  

  Dion
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Underestimate

• I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Cutting

• I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Obstacles
  • Chairs
  • Hostility

• I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • School
  • Freedom
  • Film

• I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Experience
  • Growing
  • Moving

• I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Optimism

• People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Moving
  • Suffering

• It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Science
  • Education

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