Thinking Quotes · Page 2,734

I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know…

— Nicole Krauss

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the…

— Anonymous

Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a…

— Eric Bana

I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me…

— George Carlin

There were certain things that grabbed my interest, such as photosynthesis, such as us living off plants and plants living off us.…

— Gza

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people…

— Matt Taibbi

I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous…

— Carrie Fisher

Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always…

— Milan Kundera

Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it became blurry because I grew up in a very private family. I mixed privacy and secrecy up somewhere along…

— Kristen Johnston

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very…

— Lauryn Hill

My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really…

— Diane Sawyer

It's not the norm when creators have any protections with regards to creative control. And so it took some time, I think,…

— Aaron McGruder

Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them.…

— L. Todd Rose

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve…

— Milan Kundera

I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make…

— Kiersten White

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something…

— Michael Bierut

I think comedy because of the Internet it has a bigger audience, a bigger fan base. It has fans that understand comedy…

— Joe Rogan

I do like low interest rates. I'm not making that a big secret. I think low interest rates are good. I like…

— Donald Trump

I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive…

— Stephen Ambrose

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which…

— Mark Cuban

What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How…

— Michael S. Heiser

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we…

— Tina Brown

You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved…

— Derek Landy

I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had…

— Blythe Masters

In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this…

— Mark Krikorian

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of…

— Haruki Murakami

I think that environmentalists have been terribly misunderstood over the years. I believe that anyone that cares about the earth is an…

— Jerome Ringo

I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to…

— Bill McKibben

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple…

— Eckhart Tolle

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array…

— Henry David Thoreau

The degree to which I try to be honest that there's some Donald Trump in all of us. The seduction of the…

— Chris Hayes

Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you…

— Jeph Loeb

I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was…

— Patrick Duffy

It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern…

— Todd Farmer

It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt,…

— Betsy McCaughey

I never expected Star Wars to all of a sudden become like The Matrix and change perspective on things. I respected it…

— Kyle Newman

I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people…

— Michelle Obama

To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical.…

— Masao Abe