Thinking Quotes

• I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

  

  Mustafa Akyol
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Spirituality

• I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Country
  • Celebrate

• Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

  

  James Brown
  • Thinking
  • Son
  • Brown

• I don't think about the real future very much.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Different
  • Problem
  • Successful

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • American
  • Want
  • Fans

• I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Think
  • Moment
  • Characters

• I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • People
  • Done
  • Kissing

• Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Baby

• The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Worry

• You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

  

  John John Florence
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Energy

• Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Thinking
  • Waiting

• One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Same

• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Thinking
  • Control

• I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Doing

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