Thinking Quotes - Page 238

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Learn to think and judge for yourself, responsibly. Don't accept everything without criticism and as absolutely true, everything which is brought to your attention. Learn from life. The biggest mistake of my life was that I believed everything faithfully which came from the top, and I didn't dare to have the least bit of doubt about the truth of that which was presented to me. Walk through life with your eyes open. Don't become one-sided; examine the pros and cons in all matters.

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

I think it is valuable to be poked at and I think - and this is obviously where things are headed. It's going to be much harder to be a Christian in America ... which means to be a Christian you actually have to think it's worth it. You actually have to think it through, you actually have to process it.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

I always think that the project I'm working on will be the best.