Thinking Quotes · Page 111

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

— Richard Avedon

I think everybody plays a role in their own aging. Some people accelerate it. Some people slow it down. Some people manage…

— Deepak Chopra

I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to…

— John Updike

I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much…

— Herbie Hancock

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack…

— Edward Hirsch

I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most…

— David Spangler

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he…

— William Butler Yeats

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I…

— Charles Bukowski

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

— Karl Rove

Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender…

— Geena Davis

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only…

— Frederick Douglass

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

— Guy Kawasaki

I can't do the terrible mistake of thinking audiences are dumb and will accept anything I do. I want to be cautious…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.

— Rupert Hughes

You’re like a gift,” he said, his voice rough. “All wrapped up for someone else. A man can’t look at you, but…

— Tessa Dare

Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like…

— Shane Filan

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

— Denis Thatcher

In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I…

— Gerald R. Ford

Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes…

— Colin Callender

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the…

— Alber Elbaz

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

— Elizabeth McGovern

It is easier to live openly when you're not married. Not to get too much into the whole "romantic love" thing, but…

— Chester Brown

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

— Simone Weil

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and…

— Ellar Coltrane

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give…

— Jenna Elfman

I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had…

— Stevie Wonder

“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and…

— Noam Chomsky

I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.…

— Gordon Lightfoot

God is so much nicer than you can imagine. I know "nice" is an odd word, but He loved you enough to…

— Mark Lowry

Don't think I was the only reason he healed. You're his light, Marissa. Don't ever forget that.

— J.R. Ward

I think it was hiding a princess.

— Marissa Meyer

In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not…

— Sandra Steingraber

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and…

— Rebecca Hall

I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her.

— Stephenie Meyer

Paternity, paternity. Let's think about this. This discriminates against the childless. So you get a year off because you produce a brat.…

— Greg Gutfeld

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some…

— Joel Osteen

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

— Val Kilmer