Thinking Quotes

• Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Thinking

• I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Term
  • Point Of View
  • Backgrounds

• I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Money
  • Friend

• I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

  

  Zach Condon
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Sleep

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Writing
  • Come
  • Dialogue

• Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Rebuild

• You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

  

  Jeffrey Lurie
  • Success
  • Player
  • Organization

• I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Career
  • Careers

• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Write

• You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

  

  James Daly
  • Job
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Me

• Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Thinking
  • Passing
  • Blessedness

• I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

  

  Emma Stone
  • Great
  • Women
  • Movie

• Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Imagine
  • Doe

• I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • Thinking

• Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • God
  • Death

• It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?'

  

  Edward Zwick
  • God
  • Thinking

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Wife

• I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Dark
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

  

  Khalid
  • Mind
  • War
  • Moments

• A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.

  

  Avicii
  • Work
  • Night
  • Energy

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