Thinking Quotes - Page 418

True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?

Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that doesn't necessarily mean it is pointing to the female body or male body in such a binary fashion. The culture is already there and has always been, but not as equal citizens. I think there is more progress to come.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.