Thinking Quotes - Page 304

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

I don't think it's fair, the way that the establishment is treating Donald Trump. I will be honest.

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.

When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.