Thinking Quotes

• I think it's possible to have the kind of career you really want if you want to. You just don't do the things you don't want to and you just have to be cool with waiting for something to come around that you really feel passionate for.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Passionate

• I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Book
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.

  

  Chelsea Wolfe
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Enjoy

• I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Thinking
  • Successful

• you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all

  

  William Brighty Rands
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Greatness

• Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • Thinking

• I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked me a while ago, I would have said Somalia, Somalia has quietened a bit - and I think the epicentre right now is in Northern Nigeria.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Thinking
  • Terrorism

• An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

  

  William Castle
  • Simple
  • Laughter
  • Confusion

• Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Mistake
  • Dancer

• Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Trying
  • Whiskey
  • Sobriety

• You have to understand your own psychology. You have to understand that human beings weren't really designed to invest. We have all these emotions that are appropriate responses if you're being chased by a tiger, but they're terrible responses if you've got a 30-year time horizon to think about investment or when you're trying to manage investment over 30 years.

  

  William J. Bernstein
  • Emotion
  • Psychology
  • Investment

• Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.

  

  Danny Murtaugh
  • Running
  • Sports
  • Trouble

• I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then it became "autism", and now it's "autism spectrum disorder". I'm not opposed to that from the standpoint of trying to broaden our vistas, and so forth. But from a research point of view, the term autism is lost in specificity.

  

  Darold Treffert
  • Thinking
  • Views
  • Autism

• If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.

  

  David Berlinski
  • Reality
  • Choices
  • Accepting

• In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Performances

• People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

  

  Helen Keller
  • People
  • Sad
  • Conclusion

• I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Giving

• For me, the biggest champions out there are not just on the field, but also off the field. Some of the biggest champions around the world, the David Beckhams, the Lebron Jameses, they all hold themselves so well off the field, and do so many great things for the community and socially. So I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.

  

  Nick Youngquest
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Around

• I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Different
  • Perspective
  • Loss

• I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Thinking
  • Limelight

• well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking
  • Wish
  • Obvious

• I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

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