Thinking Quotes

• I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are happier, I guess, here and I think that they might have a better future not hiding.

  

  Sayed Kashua
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Hiding

• You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

  

  Mike Myers
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Loses

• When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success?

  

  David Titley
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Should

• A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

  

  Rex Stout
  • People
  • Feels
  • Process

• You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

  

  Germany Kent
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Change

• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Hands
  • Scar
  • Props

• I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything.

  

  Karen Walker
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Clothes

• I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

  

  Morley Callaghan
  • Stories
  • Identity
  • Sound

• I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Done
  • Vacation
  • Criminals

• I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

  

  Michiel Huisman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Sometimes

• But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Baby

• Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • People
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Thinking
  • Becoming
  • Findings

• I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • People
  • Sensible
  • Organize

• I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Church

• I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.

  

  Carlos Beltran
  • Thinking
  • Hoping
  • Park

• If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Promise
  • Empowering
  • Cameras

• I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

  

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Decision
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Morning
  • Eye
  • Baby

• The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • May
  • Kind
  • Conversation

• I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • People
  • Party
  • Liberty

• You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

  

  William Congreve
  • May
  • Action
  • Speak

• Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

  

  Carol Bly
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Literature

• I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Taken

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