Thinking Quotes - Page 475

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.

In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But there is another thing that we do in the military, that I think perhaps isn't done enough in corporate life: As soon as you have made that decision, you start on the contingency planning. Because there is, as we like to say, a thinking, breathing enemy out there, who is not going to let you do just what you want.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.

I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.

Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.