Thinking Quotes
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Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
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I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.
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To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.
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Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
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I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.
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When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.
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I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all.
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My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.
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I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.
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I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.
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My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
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I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.
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Do not imprison those about you to your way of thinking; give your companion the opportunity to interpret life as freely as you do.
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I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.
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Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
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If I try to figure out what people want and give it to them, it's a failure. If I try to please people and figure out what's going to get me from point A to point B, I fail. But I think if I do what I want to do, in the long run, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point, I think it'll pay off and it'll at least feel honest.
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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
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I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate.
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I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor
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Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
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I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
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When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.
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I don't think I am any different from other people. I have the same dreams. I want a family. I want a house. A car. Why shouldn't I want that? Everybody does. And when I have it, I want it all to work.
