Thinking Quotes

• I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Problem

• I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Control
  • Understanding

• On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Environment
  • Goodness

• I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Reading
  • Technology

• Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Seems
  • Scientist
  • Indian

• I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • Sometimes
  • Littles
  • Keys

• And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Strong
  • Environment
  • Chaotic

• I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

  

  William Glasser
  • Thinking
  • Defined

• Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Noticing

• I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

  

  Mukesh Ambani
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Equal

• If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

  

  James Timothy Shaw
  • Thinking
  • Talking
  • Blessing

• Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Sometimes
  • Brother
  • Daddy

• When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of like a prison, because by the time you've shot what you need to shoot, you don't really have time to think or shoot anything else.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Thinking
  • Anything
  • Prison

• I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own song, and then walk out. I think that would be really fun.

  

  Cassie Ramone
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Song

• People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Surprise

• I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous amount of shame - that one is still regarded as a defective unit ... if only they would pull up their bootstraps - they are only indulging their emotions, everybody's moody, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Emotion

• I feel like what Director Bong is so amazing at is taking so many things and presenting them to you - never telling you how to think, but, if you leave the theater thinking something, we've done our jobs right.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Amazing

• Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Thinking
  • Book

• I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." - Alex.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Natural

• It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Thinking
  • Knows

• I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Effort
  • Drinking
  • Smoking

• I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Time
  • First
  • Tough

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