Thinking Quotes

• I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

  

  Roberto Bolano
  • Thinking
  • Living
  • Although

• Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Creative
  • Successes
  • Stepped

• Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Mom
  • Wife

• It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Betrayal

• There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

  

  Patsy Kelly
  • Thinking
  • Seems
  • Ambitious

• I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Tired

• Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Wonderful

• I think we made out sexuality changing. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Thinking
  • Blow
  • Sexuality

• We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Lost
  • Feels
  • Matter

• Thinking about Amazon's restraints - the company has never tried to introduce a social network or an email service, for example - you can understand something about the future Amazon seems to envision: A time when no screen is needed at all, just your voice.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Time
  • Future
  • Service

• I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • Night
  • Mean

• I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Thinking
  • Period

• I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Thinking
  • Hands

• I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Family
  • Weird
  • Wall

• Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.

  

  Claudette Colvin
  • Justice
  • Easy
  • Teenager

• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Executioners

• I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Character

• It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.

  

  Scottie Pippen
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Morning

• If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • Thinking
  • Happier

• I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.

  

  Maria Bello
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Listening

• I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • People
  • Women
  • Color

• To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.

  

  Will Gluck
  • Giving
  • Cutting
  • Walks

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