Thinking Quotes

• I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Film
  • Television
  • Roles

• When I start thinking about a role, I read the script a few times and then let it sink in - and then take some time to develop how that character is going to play out and what he's going to do.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Good
  • True
  • Church

• Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Thinking
  • Adventure
  • Married

• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  

  William James
  • Long
  • Occasions
  • Forgetfulness

• Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Thinking

• We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

  

  Will Richardson
  • Teaching
  • Student
  • Experts

• I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Political
  • Conscience

• I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Winning

• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Death
  • Fall

• One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Slave
  • Masters
  • Remains

• I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Confused

• I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Taken

• The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Men
  • Book
  • Quality

• Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Mean
  • Sometimes
  • Pride

• One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Thinking
  • Important

• We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Reality

• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Children
  • Proud
  • Designer

• I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • Mean
  • Reason
  • Feelings

• I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Ideas
  • Stories
  • Firsts

• For a long time I didn't know what I wanted or what I loved to do. Friends had that blessing and I remember thinking when I would have my turn. Then, in 9th Grade I sort of fell into playing Danny Zuko randomly in that years GREASE themed portion of the dance show. The moment I hit the stage I think something in me knew. Even in rehearsals. I'd fallen in Love.

  

  E. J. Bonilla
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Blessing

• It's cool that people enjoy my work. That's fun for me that people, like going to my movies and enjoy all the hard work that everyone put into it. I think that's the biggest reward, to know that everyone enjoyed the movies with me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Life
  • Done
  • Culture

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