Thinking Quotes - Page 108

It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation.

I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.

I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

When people cease to complain, they cease to think.