Thinking Quotes - Page 661

If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.

We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

A book is a machine to think with.

Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.