Thinking Quotes

• Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan it for now. But we are thinking of how to intensify our work both with President al-Assad and our partners in other countries.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • President
  • Syria

• My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Language
  • Flower
  • Changed

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Affair
  • Immortal
  • Midway

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Morning
  • Woman

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Character
  • Moments

• I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Imagination
  • Audience
  • Allies

• I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Fan
  • Pop

• When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Women
  • Power
  • Color

• Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Thinking
  • Lost
  • Painting

• Never in my heart did I want to quit, but I did, at the end of 2012, start to wonder when I was getting fractures from running hardly at all; I started thinking, 'Am I asking too much of my body? Is it not going to do this for me anymore?'

  

  Kirsten Sweetland
  • Heart
  • Running
  • Wonder

• I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Question
  • Crap
  • Als

• I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

  

  Xavi
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Looking

• If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Powerful

• Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

  

  David Crystal
  • People
  • Thinking

• I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Hip Hop

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Change
  • Circumstances
  • Differently

• I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Time
  • Words
  • Serious

• When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.

  

  Bette Midler
  • World
  • Age
  • Dream

• I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Please
  • Honey
  • Bus

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