Thinking Quotes - Page 203

You don't know me. Don't ever think you know me. The only things you know about me are the things you made me do, and that illustrates your character, not mine.

It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and tirelessly labor in the vineyards of justice - men and women who represent their clients with integrity, ethics and professionalism, and who think nothing of it as that is what lawyers do. Yet, often these individuals are the very people who change the world.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren't on the horizon, I don't think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

In my position, I think the best thing I do is just keep girlfriend involved.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.