Thinking Quotes

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

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

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

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

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.