Thinking Quotes

• 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

• Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Learned
  • Dancing

• The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Eye

• 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
  • Literature
  • Enough

• There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Mother
  • Missing
  • Distance

• Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.

  

  Michel Legrand
  • Strange
  • Directors
  • Theme

• Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Fighting

• Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I'm no expert, Rock, but I don't think I have any poontang...to give you.

  

  Mick Foley
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Experts

• I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Dream
  • Song
  • Warrior

• I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Miserable

• 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.

  

  William James
  • Experience
  • Memories
  • Relation

• 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

• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Thinking
  • Serious
  • Airplane

• Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Home

• I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Book
  • Past

• This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Paradox

• Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • School
  • Kind
  • Literature

• We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?

  

  Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Appreciation

• You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Thinking
  • Racist
  • Guts

• I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Believe
  • Political

• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Responsibility

• If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.

  

  Michael Bastian
  • Honest
  • Loses
  • Persona

• Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking

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