Thinking Quotes

• For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Thinking

• I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Film
  • Compromise
  • Months

• There is something about humanity just being drained in many different ways, I think. There are so many things that drain us nowadays, where literally you're just bombarded as a human being. It may be that, or it may be this romantic idea of being forever immortal, of witnessing humanity generation after generation. Thinking Forever Humanity Different Immortal Drained Bombarded Drains Generations Humans Ideas Just Being May Way Different Ways Human Beings

  

  Mia Maestro
  • Different
  • Forever
  • Immortal

• Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

  

  Kate Pierson
  • Certain
  • Stones
  • Rebellion

• I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Courses

• When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.

  

  Nancy Pearl
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.

  

  Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
  • Might
  • Enlightenment
  • Serenity

• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Eye

• By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

  

  Michael Biehn
  • Thinking
  • Western

• I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • World
  • Energy
  • Interesting

• It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.

  

  David Wessel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Enough

• You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Knows
  • Comic

• I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • inspirational

• 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.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Giving
  • Running
  • Tomorrow

• I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Freedom
  • Changing
  • Conviction

• I think one thing most of faiths have in common is they all realize that everything manifests from one [god]. That's whether you're dealing with science, religion, Bible, whatever. They all realize it all came from one, and then from one, you got many.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Thinking
  • Common
  • Realizing

• Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • inspirational

• I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Ideas
  • Obligation

• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Nice
  • Forever
  • Blow

• 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've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Different
  • Long
  • Kind

• I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Father
  • Player
  • Numbers

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